Jean

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Jean is a nine-year-old orphan who roams Paris, selling small wooden headstocks that he crafts himself. His life changes upon meeting D'Artagnan, who is the first to offer him hospitality on his boat moored along the Seine. The two become inseparable, and Jean's agility saves D'Artagnan from many errors. Furthermore, he is a skilled handyman who manages to create various inventions and highly useful gadgets. Jean is not entirely an orphan, as he searches for his mother, Catherine, from whom he was separated at the age of three.