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Belle Epoque
By ROSS, Elizabeth
- ISBN
- 978-0-385-74146-0 978-0-375-99005-2 978-0-375-98527-0
- Publisher
- Delacorte
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on June 1, 2013 | Grades 5-up
Gr 6–8—Inspired by Emile Zola's short story Les Repoussoirs, this debut novel takes place during the late 1800s. Maude Pichon, a runaway, discovers life in Paris to be crueler and much less romantic than she imagined from her country home in provincial Brittany. To get by, she takes a job as a repoussoir, a young woman hired for her ugliness and used to highlight the beauty of her patroness. Maude's first client is a challenge: a h...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
