The Paris Daughter

Elise travels to New York, planning to see Juliette and Lucie, and finds that it feels odd to see how the city changed and moved on in her absence. She checks into her hotel, and from a piece of wood brought with her from France, she carves what she imagines an adult Mathilde’s face would look like. Ruth meets her, and they go to dinner together before walking to see Juliette’s bookshop while it is shut. Elise is shocked to see how precisely Juliette replicated the original La Librairie des Rêves and even more shocked to see a painting of Olivier’s that was reported stolen by the Nazis being sold in the gallery on the corner.

The following morning, Elise visits the gallery and sees several of her own sculptures on sale for an extortionate amount of money under the name of “Rousselle.” She confronts the owner, who turns out to be Bouet. He admits to stealing the art from her apartment during the war and begs her not to call the police. Elise realizes she was working for a pittance back in Paris, all while a wildly successful artistic career was established based on her stolen art. She demands Bouet tell the world the truth and return all of the stolen art, and he promises to make things right.