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Maupassant, "j'ai en effet pour amie Mme Rosset", is this a typo?
One of Maupassant's stories in the Gallimard edition contains the following sentence.
Ma chère petite, j'ai en effet pour amie Mme Rosset, que je connais depuis six ans et que j'aime beaucoup; j'...
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Identification of a Maupassant short story where a young man is upset by the past infidelities of his mistress
In a short story by Maupassant, a young man is upset by the past infidelities of his mistress, a rather paradoxical situation since he came much later after the infidelities (and somehow benefited ...
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Which Maupassant short stories are set during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870?
I read somewhere that Maupassant wrote ten short stories on the 1870 war between France and Prussia. I know "Boule de suif", "Deux amis", "Un duel", "Madame Sauvage&...
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Short story, 19th century: French country priest and devil exchange subjectivities
I am looking for a 19th century short story. I thought it was written by Guy de Maupassant, but didn't find it. A French country priest starts having vivid dreams that he is a diabolical courtier in ...
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For Maupassant, were women more inclined to imitate others than men?
In Maupassant's short story "Le Signe" / "The Signal", part of the collection Le Horla (1887), the baroness de Grangerie tells her friend the marchioness de Rennedon how a woman of ...
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How did contemporary female readers respond to the sexual violence in the Contes de la Bécasse?
In Maupassant's short story That Pig of a Morin / Ce cochon de Morin,
the narrator, Labarbe, says to a woman he finds very attractive (emphasis mine),
Parce que vous êtes une des plus belles ...
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What does it mean to "unmoor criticism"?
The introduction by Pol Neveux to the complete short stories of Guy de Maupassant (the edition that's on Project Gutenberg - I couldn't pin down its exact details) says the following about the article ...
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Which short stories are falsely attributed to Guy de Maupassant, and why?
Thanks to @GarethRees's sleuthing and editing, I just learned that several French short stories found in the Project Gutenberg version of the "Entire Original Maupassant Short Stories" are in fact not ...
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What political leanings are being described for Monsieur Carre-Lamadon?
I've just begun reading the complete short stories of Guy de Maupassant, starting with one of his most famous, "Boule de Suif" (variously translated as "Dumpling", "Butterball", etc.) In an early ...
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Why did the waiter send Varajou where he did?
In Guy de Maupassant's short story "The Wrong House" (available on Project Gutenberg along with all of Guy de Maupassant's short stories), Quartermaster Varajou wishes to find a brothel, and asks a ...
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Why and how did the orphan kill his adoptive mother?
While seeking the answer to a story-identification question the other day, I got sucked into a collection of Guy de Maupassant's short stories. (Have fun!) One of them, "The Orphan", is ...
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In de Maupassant's Two Friends, why does the colonel allow the two men to go into a warzone?
In Two Friends by Guy de Maupassant, the two men wish to go fishing in a warzone and are allowed to do so by the colonel who controls the checkpoint between the safety of Paris and the warzone outside ...
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