Title: Belle epoque
Description: 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.
Subjects: Runaway teenagers, Conduct of life, Juvenile fiction, Social classes, Runaways, Interpersonal relations, Personal Beauty, Fiction, History
Places: Paris (France), France
Time periods: Third Republic, 1870-1940, 1870-1940