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Jacqueline de Beaumont, a French bourgeois girl from the western city of Rouen. Her father has ordered Jacqueline to be married to a rich scientist in Paris. Ever since Jacqueline moved into his family estate, she's been getting mysterious letters at her door. Ever since then, she's been feeling odd around her new family.
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