There is excitement in Paris: there are rumors that the Museum of Natural History is going to display a rare
diamond. The stone,
Marie-Laure overhears a man telling his friend, has been in the museum’s collection for many years, but for mysterious reasons, it hasn’t been shown until now. Marie-Laure is now ten years old, and her
blindness has given her an active imagination—she can visualize anything. She reads whatever she can find, and especially enjoys the last book her father
Daniel bought her:
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas.