19th century concierges were snatched up and promoted by the popular physiological literature of Monnier or James Rousseau, that of novelists such as Balzac or Eugène Sue, and yet again caught in pencil or ink by Sapeck or Daumier. If female and male concierges share the same function, and exert it often together as a couple, yet the female variety is the object of more acerbic and violent criticism. Why do writers prefer to depict female concierges ? Why are they the object of more numerous caricatures ? To what degree and in what manner can it be legitimate to analyse them as female “sex” objects ? These are the questions to which this paper tries to find an answer by studying among other things the reification of female concierges in the writings and drawings of the 19th century.