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100 1 _aMaupassant, Guy de,
_d1850-1893
245 1 0 _aŒuvres complètes de Guy de Maupassant - volume 26
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-04-01
505 0 _aL'Inutile Beauté -- Le Champ d'oliviers -- Mouche -- Le Noyé -- L'Épreuve -- Le Masque -- Un Portrait -- L'Infirme -- Les Vingt-cinq francs de la Supérieure -- Un Cas de divorce -- Qui sait? -- Alexandre (inédit).
508 _aClaudine Corbasson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
520 _a"Œuvres complètes de Guy de Maupassant - volume 26" by Guy de Maupassant is a collection of short stories written in the late 19th century. The volume includes works such as "L'Inutile Beauté" and "Le Champ d'Oliviers," focusing on complex human relationships, societal expectations, and the struggles faced within family and personal histories. These narratives often revolve around characters wrestling with inner turmoil, societal pressure, and the weight of past decisions. Readers can expect emotionally charged tales set in the social milieus of Maupassant’s France. The opening of this volume begins with "L'Inutile Beauté," centering on the marital conflict between the Comte and Comtesse de Mascaret. The story reveals the wife’s resentment over her husband's jealousy and his strategy of repeated pregnancies to keep her undesirable to other men. A dramatic confrontation leads Gabrielle, the comtesse, to declare that one of their seven children is not her husband's, plunging the family into doubt and emotional turmoil. The narrative explores themes of control, motherhood, revenge, and the search for personal freedom. Moving on, the collection introduces "Le Champ d'Oliviers," where an aging priest, Vilbois, unexpectedly encounters a young vagabond who claims to be his illegitimate son from a long-ago love affair. The opening of this story highlights themes of regret, lost love, and the burdens of the past as the two men come to terms with their connection. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cParis: Louis Conard, 1908
653 _aFrench literature -- 19th century
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75769
999 _c116494
_d116494