Descripción

Robert Louis Stevenson

Adapted by Deborah Meyers

Human interest

Jean-Marie is an orphan who is happily adopted by Doctor Desprez and his wife Anastasie. When the doctor finds the precious Treasure of Franchard he plans to take his family away from their lovely, old country home go to Paris and live a rich life. Jean-Marie does not want to go to Paris and during the night the treasure mysteriously disappears?

Dossier:
Paris in the Nineteenth Century