Madeleine has scars on her face, which I think are connected to the death of one of her sisters, Suzette. There is also another sister, Coraline, and a nephew, Emile, who is sick, and Madeleine trades the medicine he needs with carnal favours for the apothecarist.
One of her mother's clients, Camille Dacier, is a policeman, and he talks to Madeleine because he wants to start working for a clock maker, Dr Maximiliam Reinhart, as a maid for his daughter, Veronique. The real reason is that Camille wants her to spy as there are rumours that Reinharat is involved in some indecent experiments. So Madeleine need to report back.
Madeleine enters the household, and what she first discovers is that apart from being a clock maker, Reinhart makes automatons in the shape of insects and animals, and he also researches animals and opens them up to understand biology.
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