Juliette de Flounoy refuses to be imprisoned by her past-the French Revolution that robbed her family of their heritage, and the rape that left her homeless-comforting herself with her dreams of becoming London''s premier modiste and by her friends, the enterprising ladies of Mrs. Gerrard''s, London''s most exclusive seraglio.

Juliette de Flounoy refuses to be imprisoned by her past-the French Revolution that robbed her family of their heritage, and the rape that left her homeless-comforting herself with her dreams of becoming London''s premier modiste and by her friends, the enterprising ladies of Mrs. Gerrard''s, London''s most exclusive seraglio.