TY  - BOOK
AU  - Maupassant,Guy de
TI  - Contes de la Becasse
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://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contes_de_la_b%C3%A9casse; Release date is 2004-03-01; 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; Produced by Miranda van de Heijning, Christine De Ryck and the PG
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N2  - "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.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11714
ER  -