Paris 8 (Pages 555 - 650)

 SPOILERS!!!

At a party thrown by her brother Marc, Marie comes across Frank Hadley, and she feels overwhelmed. This is not the man who she fell for years ago, but his son who has come to Paris to develop his artistic skills and learn French. After this first encounter, Frank hangs out with the Blanchards, and we discover that he becomes the interest of both Marie and Claire. Marie feels jealous of her daughrer, and Claire is shocked to discover that her mother wants him for herself. It is Marc, who notices his sister's infatuation and his niece's consternation, so he talks to Frank, and from then on the young man keeps away from Marie. His father comes to Paris, and Marie finds him as attractive as years ago. He is married, but Marie wouldn't mind having a fling with him. Yet, when she hints the possibility to him, he refuses. What he comes to talk to her about is about Frank and Claire. He knows that they are in love, and Marie tells him that if that happened, she would lose her only daughter as she would move to the other side of the Atlantic. Yet, she does not want her daughter to deny herself love. So in the end Claire and Frank marry, and Claire, who has been seeing a lot of Roland de Cygne, marries him too.

Louise, who was born from the affair of Marc and Corinne Petit, goes to Paris to find any relatives. After hiring a detective, she disccovers her real mother's family, but when she goes there, her grandmother refuses her, telling her never to return. Louise meets Luc Gascon, who helps her find a job modelling for Chanel. Shortly afterwards they start an affair, but after a few months Luc finishes it, and he suggests she start seeing rich men he selects for a price. Even though she is outraged at the suggestion she become a prostitute, she eventually agrees. It is through her activities that she comes across Marc Blanchard, and when he takes her home, she sees a photo of a wedding, and when she sees John Fox, she realises that either Marc is her father or involved with her family. So she decides to walk out. From then on she starts buying his works of art. Years later, in 1936 Louise opens her own brothel with exquisite women. Her own condition is that the girls should not use drugs. Then she discovers that Luc provides cocaine for one, Bernadette, and she fires the girl and tells Luc she won't see him again. Luc leaves swearing that she will regret it.