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The mad women's ball, Victoria Mas ; [translated by Frank Wynne]

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The mad women's ball, Victoria Mas ; [translated by Frank Wynne]
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The mad women's ball
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1274193325
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Victoria Mas ; [translated by Frank Wynne]
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The Salpêtrière Asylum: Paris, 1885, Dr. Charcot holds all of Paris in thrall with his displays of hypnotism on women who have been deemed mad and cast out from society. Geneviève is a senior nurse, who places her faith in both the celebrated psychiatrist Dr. Charcot and science. But everything begins to change when she meets Eugénie, the nineteen-year-old daughter locked away in the asylum for seeing spirits, and she needs Geneviève's help to escape
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adult
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