Questions tagged [bel-ami]
Questions about Guy de Maupassant's 1885 novel 'Bel-Ami'. Use this tag with the tags [guy-de-maupassant] and [french-literature] .
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What is the nature of the relationship between Madeleine and the Comte de Vaudrec in Bel-Ami?
In Maupassant's novel Bel-Ami the Comte de Vaudrec is a wealthy member of the nobility who comes to dine at the Forestiers' home every Monday evening. After Madeleine's husband Charles Forestier has ...
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Is Lambert-Sarrazin's moustache speech in Bel-Ami an allusion to a real speech?
The beginning of Chapter V in Part Two of Maupassant's novel Bel-Ami tells us about political discussions regarding the French colonisation of North Africa. One of the members of Parliament (the Third ...
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In Maupassant's Bel-Ami, why would it be compromising for a magistrate to have been in (the) mixed committees?
In the second chapter of Part Two of Maupassant's novel Bel-Ami, Georges Duroy's wife turns out to have interesting connections that allow the couple to write newspaper articles that can make or break ...
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What does it mean to have teeth in the English style?
In Chapter VI of Maupassant's novel Bel-Ami, the journalist Robert de Varenne describes the Baroness de Livar as follows (emphasis added):
Une grande sèche, soixante ans, frisons faux, dents à l'...
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Is Maupassant referring to a ranking of duellists or shooters that existed in late nineteenth-century France?
In Chapter VII of the first part of Maupassant's novel Bel-Ami, the main character, Georges Duroy, is insulted by another journalist.
The disagreement escalates and leads to a duel using pistols. ...
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What is so Balzacian about Mr. Walter's words to Mr. Montelin in Maupassant's Bel-Ami?
In the first few chapters of Maupassant's novel Bel-Ami, the main character, Georges Duroy, is learning the ropes of journalism. In Chapter IV of Part I, he accompanies the journalist nicknamed Saint-...
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What is the difference between souteneur and proxénète in Maupassant's Bel-Ami?
In the first chapters of Guy de Maupassant's novel Bel-Ami, the main character, Georges Duroy, is trying to learn the craft of journalism.
The end of the book's fourth chapter tells us that he meets ...
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