DTel 26192

[pentre]

12a Thus Mademoiselle is given a French flower

The letters I have are ??M?E (the 1st letter may be S)

I'm not very experienced at cryptics so may be missing the obvious. Am I looking for the name of a flower?
Thanks for any help.

[bibblebub]

thus = so
Mademoiselle = mme (standard french abbreviation)

thus you get SOMME, the French river (a river is something which flows i.e. a flower)

[octogenarian]

Somme------ So [thus ]mme [mademoiselle ]= Somme [french river ]

[aniani]

As a matter of interest, the abbreviation for mademoiselle is Mlle. Mme is the abbreviation for Madame.

[pentre]

Thank you. I'm learning slowly!