Guy Maupassant: 1044 books

Rose is a girl who works at the farm of Mr. Vallin . The stifling atmosphere of spring brings him to sit on a bale of straw . She meets Jacques , a farm boy , and has a relationship with him. But soon , Rose becomes pregnant. Jacques promises to marry her , but when she reminds him of his promise, he fled ...  

Since childhood, Mr. Sacrament is obsessed with the desire to have the Legion of Honour . Married and living in Paris bourgeois , its occupation of walks where he counts the number of officers and knights of the Legion of Honour and eight officers on September 10 knights to go , how many t find he return ?  

On the hill of Châtelguyon , Dr. Bonnet tells the misfortunes of Bertha, a simple-minded, he had tried unsuccessfully to awaken thought.  

After eleven years of marriage and seven children, Tidal of the countess, still in the fullness of its beauty , told her husband that one of the kids is not it ...  

Gontran Lardois remembers his old friends with a college friend . When they arrive at Robert Patience, he says he met in Limoges five years ago, the man invited him to breakfast with him . Gontran is a little heavy decorated with paintings of naked women everywhere: it is a brothel. Patience and...

Returning home after the Mass, Benoist is the way with Martine and his father. Suddenly , looking at her he said, " Name of a name, it's a beautiful girl all the same as Martine ," he eats no more, he dreams at night , he will spy . Taking his courage in both hands , he will confess his...

Varajou military to vigorous temperament , is on leave with his sister , right-thinking wife of a notable in a small provincial town. Seeking to distract , and believing enter a house where there is the " ladies " welcoming , it penetrates inadvertently in a salon of the good society ...  

The narrator defines man - girl like the plague of this country: it is changing , unpredictable and treacherous . We find much on the boulevards of Paris and the Chamber of Deputies . In friendship, he swears by such for three months and then the milking scoundrel .  

At Châtelguyon , small spa town of Auvergne , in the large breakfast room , the narrator meets a father and his daughter. The father is afflicted with a very singular spasm ...  

Berthe ... X wrote to his aunt Genevieve Z ... from Etretat. She complains about the boorishness , coarseness and rudeness of men. Back from hunting , sea baths , on the train , to the hotel, they misbehave and this hampered its sensitivity. Yesterday, for example , on the beach , she had to move to no longer hear the gritty stories told two men ...  

Jacques Bourdillère , a confirmed bachelor , fell under the spell of a girl seeing her swim at the sea. He falls in love very quickly , made ​​his marriage proposal , but parents are reluctant because of multiple bonds that it ready and an old mistress of record .  

The meeting on the Parisian boulevards between a negro and an officer is an opportunity for the latter to tell how the two men were known during the Franco -Prussian War of 1870 and tell two stories about this extraordinary man . He was a lieutenant and commanded a besieged citadel, a disparate band...

M. Saval , provincial notary ( seen as an artist for Vernon inhabitants) just spend an evening in Paris. Through a series of circumstances , it is embroiled in a party given by a famous painter. He first played the role of stooge , and involuntary and ridiculous attraction of the evening. He wakes up in the morning with a hangover , stripped of his clothes and all his affairs ...  

Berthe Savignol was raised by his parents in the dark about things in life . At eighteen, the naive young married Baron Georges , a handsome boy who does business on the stock exchange . It therefore leaves his country and goes to Paris where she frequents little world , content to stay in his street....