TY - BOOK AU - Maupassant,Guy de TI - L'inutile beauté AV - PQ PY - 2004/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Short stories, French KW - French fiction -- 19th century N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useless_Beauty Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Inutile_Beaut%C3%A9; Release date is 2004-02-01; L'inutile beauté -- Le champ d'oliviers -- Mouche -- Le noyé -- L'épreuve -- Le masque -- Un portrait -- L'infirme -- Les 25 francs de la supérieure -- Un cas de divorce -- Qui sait?; Produced by Wilelmina Mallière and PG Distributed Proofreaders; Original publication data not identified N2 - "L'inutile beauté" by Guy de Maupassant is a short story published in 1926. It follows Countess de Mascaret, who after bearing seven children in eleven years of marriage, confesses a devastating secret to her husband: one child is not his. She refuses to reveal which one, wielding this uncertainty as a weapon against a man she believes has reduced her to a "baby factory." The story explores themes of beauty, power, and marriage through their tense psychological battle. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11175 ER -