FTP, name this hussy with a heart of gold, the almost tragic heroine of a short story by Guy de Maupassant.
She is briefly befriended because whole chickens embedded in aspic are tasty.  In addition it is impossible to eat a woman's food without talking to her.  The red-bearded author of "revolutionary potations," Cornudet, is horrified by the Bonapartist politics of the title character, but he still wants to hook up.  The other ladies traveling overland to Dieppe repress their collective longing to throw the corpulent title character in the snow.  FTP, name this hussy with a heart of gold, the almost tragic heroine of a short story by Guy de Maupassant.
She is briefly befriended because whole chickens embedded in aspic are tasty.  
"Boule de Suif" or "Ball of Fat" or "Tallow Ball"