Maupassant, Guy de 1850-1893 creator text utu 2004 monographic fr 1 online resource : multiple file formats "Contes de la Becasse" by Guy de Maupassant is a short story collection published in 1883. The opening story establishes a frame narrative: during woodcock hunting season, the elderly Baron des Ravots hosts dinner parties where guests compete to eat the prized woodcock heads. The winner must then tell a story to compensate the others. The remaining tales are supposedly these dinner stories, creating a structure reminiscent of Boccaccio's Decameron. The collection contains seventeen stories in total. (This is an automatically generated summary.) La bécasse -- Ce cochon de Morin -- La folle -- Pierrot -- Menuet -- La peur -- Farce normande -- Les sabots -- La rempailleuse -- En mer -- Un Normand -- Le testament -- Aux champs -- Un coq chanta -- Un fils -- Saint-Antoine -- L'Aventure de Walter Schnaffs. Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contes_de_la_b%C3%A9casse Release date is 2004-03-01 Produced by Miranda van de Heijning, Christine De Ryck and the PG Online Distributed Proofreaders. This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr. Original publication data not identified Short stories, French French fiction -- 19th century PQ Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11714 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11714 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133259.0 11714