Maupassant, Guy de 1850-1893 creator text utu 2004 monographic fr 1 online resource : multiple file formats "Pierre et Jean" by Guy de Maupassant is a novel written between June and September 1887. When a family friend leaves his entire inheritance to Jean Roland, his brother Pierre begins to suspect their mother's fidelity and Jean's legitimacy. Pierre's investigation uncovers painful truths that tear the family apart, leading to violent confrontations and shifting loyalties. This psychological realist work explores themes of heredity, bourgeois family life, and the destructive power of hidden secrets as one brother's life flourishes while the other's crumbles. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_et_Jean Release date is 2004-02-01 Produced by Miranda van de Heijning, Renald Levesque and PG Distributed Proofreaders. This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliotheque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr. Original publication data not identified Inheritance and succession -- Fiction France -- Social life and customs -- Fiction Brothers -- Fiction Normandy (France) -- Fiction Sibling rivalry -- Fiction PQ Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11131 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11131 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133251.0 11131