1870-1940

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1870-1940

Belle epoque

Maude Pichon, an impoverished girl in Belle Epoque Paris, is hired by Countess Dubern to make her daughter, Isabelle, look more beautiful by comparison but soon Maude is enmeshed in a tangle of love, friendship, and deception.

Night of the New Magicians

Magic Tree House #35
2006
Jack and Annie visit the Paris World's Fair of 1889 in an effort to protect four scientific pioneers from an evil sorcerer.

The anti-semitic moment

a tour of France in 1898
2003
Draws from local archives throughout France to examine the wave of anti-semitism that swept through the country in 1898 in response to the Dreyfus Affair in which French officer Alfred Dreyfus, a man of Jewish faith, was wrongfully convicted of treason.

The invention of Hugo Cabret

2007
Hugo, an orphan, clock keeper, and thief who lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, finds his life and most precious secrets in jeopardy when he becomes involved with an eccentric girl and a bitter old man.

The phantom of the opera

2010
Graphic novel based on the Gaston Leroux classic, in which a disfigured musical genius, living under the Paris Opera House, uses music to win the love of a beautiful opera singer.

Paris in the spring with Picasso

2010
Describes how some of Paris's famous artists and writers, such as Pablo Picasso, Max Jacob, and Guillaume Apollinaire, spend their day before preparing to attend a party at Gertrude Stein's apartment.

Belle epoque

Sixteen-year-old Maude Pichon, a plain, impoverished girl in Belle Epoque Paris, is hired by Countess Dubern to make her headstrong daughter, Isabelle, look more beautiful by comparison, but soon Maude is enmeshed in a tangle of love, friendship, and deception.

Marie, dancing

2005
A fictionalized autobiography of Marie Van Goethem, the impoverished student from the Paris Opera ballet school who became the model for Edgar Degas's famous sculpture, "The Little Dancer.".

Fartiste

2008
In nineteenth-century France, Joseph Pujol, a little boy who can control his farts, grows up to become Le Petomaine, making audiences laugh at the Moulin Rouge in Paris with his animal noises, songs, and other sounds. Includes facts about Joseph Pujol and life in turn-of-the-century Paris.

Chasing Degas

2009
During the Impressionism era, a young ballet dancer races around Paris searching for Monsieur Degas, who accidentally took her bag--and the tutu she needs for the recital in which she is to perform that night. Includes reproductions of paintings by French Impressionist artists.

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