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Set in early nineteenth-century Paris, the narrative traces the unsettling return of a seductive, predatory woman whose nocturnal appearances trigger mysterious deaths and revive medieval superstitions. Told through framed testimonies, police correspondence, and eyewitness accounts, the plot follows a circle of caretakers, traumatized children, and officials as they investigate uncanny occurrences near the city’s river isles. The work alternates investigative episodes with intimate scenes of family sorrow and neighborhood rumor, exploring tensions between emerging rational authority and lingering popular belief while showing how a localized personal curse ripples through domestic life and the urban underworld.
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