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Release date is 2009-12-02

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"La Femme de Paul" by Guy de Maupassant is a short story published in 1881. Paul Baron takes his mistress Madeleine on a rowing excursion to La Grenouillère, a riverside establishment. When a boat arrives carrying four women whom the crowd labels as lesbians, a confrontation unfolds that exposes hidden truths about Madeleine. The story explores desire, betrayal, and the devastating discovery of a lover's secret nature in nineteenth-century Parisian society. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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