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Paris
A parody of Chicago
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Paris 1920. Jazz, liquor, and Eponine owned the city. She was bold, beautiful, and a hot-blooded murderess. A few months ago she had killed her husband, Montparnasse, and her sister, Azelma, after she found them in bed together while they were doing a gig in Niece. She had been in every sleezy paper across France since then and was proud of it, too. Yet, she couldn't be on top of the world forever.....
Cosette and Marius had been married for ten years. After a while, she became bored with him because instead of going off and revolting against the government he decided to become a machanic. A decent mechaning allbeit, but still....a machanic. So, for the last six years, Cosette has been playing around at the local club while Marius has been at work. She became quite fond of a particular young dandy named Jaques. Their relationship eventually evolved to where he would go over to her flat while Marius was away and have some fun with her. One night, though, Jaques began to notice that Cosette wasn't looking as young as she once did; therefore, it was time to move on from his point of view. Cosette didn't quite know how to take this kind of news from her lover, for she had only ever been praised for her beauty; so, following a whim, she shot him there in her living room three times. When Marius got home that evening she said that Jaques was a burglar who had tried to rape her, so she shot him in self-defense. Marius would have believed her, but when he got wind of what really happened from a few mutual friends, he just couldn't do anything but hate his wife for cheating on him. The police took Cosette to the women's section county jail to await her trial.
In the cell Cosette met five other women who had killed their lovers in "self-defense" as well as the matron of these murderesses: Mamma Thendarier. Although Mamma Thenardier was supposed to be guarding these girls, she made it so that if they did her a favor she reciprocated it through the media and the law. At present, Eponine was her star attraction, yet Cosette, not liking to see someone else be more important, soon bumped Eponine out of that spot. To make matters worse for Eponine, Cosette also stole the heart of her lawyer, Monsieur Thenardier, who, with his gift for gab, had won the sympathy of many a judge and jury in the past through his versions of the truth. Of course, his services didn't come for free, and, given that he liked to think himself a ladies' man, he did his job for both money and "favors." Monsieur Thenardier takes Cosette's case and tells her what her new story to the murder is.
Right after Cosette gets the story down who should come for an interview but the famous tabloid reporter Lulu Sunbeam. With the interviews stacking up, Cosette soon becomes the most popular cover-story in Paris. Not liking to be pushed aside, Eponine attempts to "befriend" Cosette, inviting her to become part of her late sister and her's vaudeville act. Of course this was just a try at getting the limelight back on herself, but Eponine hoped Cosette didn't notice that. Nevertheless, Cosette sensed the plot and declined the offer with a smile.
Soon the limelight was snatched from Cosette, though, when a younger, beautiful, rich heiress named Musetta murders her boyfriend, Claude. Now Cosette knows how it feels to be left in the dust, but thinks up a way to get her back in the headlines...
Cosette knew that having a pregnant woman in jail would get the spotlight on her and, by sexually bribing the medical examenor, that is exactly what reports said she was. Marius, never being the brightest light on the Christmas tree, believed that the "baby" was his.
Eponine desperately wants some of this luck Cosette keeps running into, so she thinks up a ton of stunts to pull at her trial, which she immediatly tells to Monsieur Thenardier. Knowing who the media preferred, Monsieur Thenardier teaches Eponine's tricks to Cosette for her upcomming trial. Just as Cosette gets aquitted of her crime (after a great display of lies, stunts, etc), Musetta kills again, taking the limelight off of the trial completely. Lulu Sunbeam eagerly rushes to get an interview from the new murderess, never revealing that "she" is really Javert undercover.
Neither having anything left, Eponine and Cosette go off and do that vaudeville act, enjoying their new limelight as long as they can. As for Marius, he didn't have the heart to divorce Cosette after finding out that there really was no baby, so he is still sitting at home, going to work, and comming back home again.
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