Jacqueline

A marquise says she found a diamond bracelet in the street. “But if she did not pick it up—she must have stolen it,” Jacqueline reasons, while the grown-ups trade whispers nearby.

At a Tuesday gathering in Paris, young girls nibble sweets and strain to catch the scandalous conversation in the next room. Jacqueline, strikingly beautiful and on the verge of womanhood, is watched by the painter Hubert Marien—and already finds the adults’ world more baffling than its rules admit. The Colonel’s tale of a glittering bracelet and a society lady’s reputation leaves her friends guessing, but Jacqueline wants to know what really happened. As childhood curiosity meets the secrets and expectations of Parisian society, what will she discover behind its polished manners?

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