- The parrot's name is Loulou, and he's so annoying that Madame Aubain gives him to Félicité. She teaches him to talk and lets him loose in the house.
- One day Loulou disappears, and Félicité goes berserk looking for him. She gives up after searching everywhere and suddenly he lands on her shoulder. She never recovers from the shock.
- First she gets a chill, and three years later she's deaf, and the only sound she can hear is the parrot's voice.
- One winter night Loulou dies, and Madame Aubain suggests that Félicité have him stuffed because she is so distraught.
- She takes him to another town to the taxidermist because she doesn't trust the mail. It turns out she's right not to, because a mail coach comes so fast down the road and knocks her unconscious (she couldn't hear the driver shouting at her).
- It takes Fellacher, the taxidermist, six months to do the job, and at last Loulou returns.
- Félicité puts him in her room, which is full of crazy religious objects. She starts to realize that the Holy Spirit (a dove) in the stained glass window at church looks kind of like the parrot. She buys a print of the baptism of Jesus (read all about it here) and puts it in her room so she can see Loulou and the Holy Spirit at the same time.
- Paul gets married to a rude woman.
- Monsieur Bourais dies and it comes out that he had been totally bamboozling Madame Aubain all this time. She's so upset that she dies.
- Félicité mourns Madame's passing and doesn't really know what to do with herself.
- Paul and his wife show up and take what they want from the house and then put it up for sale.
- Félicité doesn't know what she's supposed to do, so she mostly just stays in her room and gets weaker. No one rents or buys the house, and she doesn't ask for any repairs even though the roof is leaking into her room all winter because she is afraid she'll be thrown out.
- She starts coughing up blood, and the doctor says she has pneumonia, just like what killed Madame.
- During the religious festival of Corpus Christi she sends for a priest and he performs last rites. She starts hallucinating.
- Loulou is all wormeaten and broken, but Félicité is blind and kisses him and holds him on her deathbed. Mother Simon, who is caring for her, takes the parrot downstairs to the altar they've set up.