La Maupassant, Guy de 1850-1893 creator text utu 2006 monographic fr 1 online resource : multiple file formats "La petite roque" by Guy de Maupassant is a short story published in 1885. When a postman discovers the naked body of a young girl by a river in a French village, an investigation begins into her rape and murder. Three suspects emerge, but no arrests follow due to lack of evidence. The story exposes the incompetence of provincial judicial and police systems as the case grows cold and the truth remains buried—until guilt begins to haunt someone in unexpected ways. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Petite_Roque Release date is 2006-05-08 Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (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 French fiction -- 19th century PQ Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18353 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18353 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133429.0 18353