Guy Maupassant: 1044 books

During the Franco -Prussian War of 1870, near Rethel, Berthine , daughter of Nicolas Pichon ranger , captured six Germans...  

This new tells the story of Morin Mercier in La Rochelle, returning from Paris where he spent fifteen days. At the station , he saw a young girl, Henriette Bonnel , falls under her charm and follows the train. Thinking she made ​​advances to him , he tries to kiss her. Frightened , the girl alert employees. Morin is stopped...

The narrator recounts the impressions he feels the arrival of spring , on the deck of a boat traveling on the Seine , he smiled at a girl . When he is about to approach a man stops his gesture and asked him to " beware of love" and tell him what happened to him last spring.  

It is the story of a singular adventure reached a boater of the Seine on his way home, after dining with a friend. He stops to smoke a pipe when trembles because of a strange movement in his sailboat that makes the wobble as the middle of a storm. He decides to pull his anchor and go, but...

"Is Jeanne de Limours still alive?" His eye was fixed on mine, full of shuddering terror. I smiled. "Very much alive . . . and prettier than ever." "You know her?" "Yes." He hesitated: "Intimately?" "No." He took my hand: "Talk to me about her."

ouvenet Pierre offers his friend Paul to be his companion for a short stay in Italy. Paul hesitated a little, but finally agreed when Pierre evokes the beauty of young Italian women. In the train that takes them to Genoa, an unknown installs in the car the two men who are quick to get to know. Not...

During an evening , General de G **** horrible tells two stories : one set during the 1870 war , the other concerns the end of the Flatters Mission in 1881 .  

Jean Bridelle , fifty years old boy , returns to a small event which he witnessed . Young man, he studied law and went every morning to walk in the nursery of the Luxembourg Gardens ; quiet, he read a little and listened to the sounds of Paris . In the garden , he prides himself curiosity for an...

The couple farmers is before the pallet where dying old . The priest has said he will not last the night. The man asks if he must ensure his stepfather to go to the fields. His wife advised him to go to work , since the funeral will be held Saturday. Then they changed their minds : there best time to prevent the vicinity of the death of the old ; this will save time tomorrow...  

An old lady , Delphine writes to Sophie that now she prefers to stay in his house , wrapped in memories, rather than run in Paris ...  

The brothel of a small Normandy town held by Mrs. Tellier, is " closed for First Communion " to the dismay of regulars. After a railway trip , residents attended the ceremony and were moved by Constance , niece of Madame Tellier, and the church feeling of reverence , so they will go to...

M. Joseph Mouradour Meroul had known in college. They were good friends. So when he meets him at a ball , they will attend again and Joseph is invited in the castle of Meroul . Joseph 's General Counsel is a Republican, free-thinker . The royalists and Meroul are devout Catholics . Joseph...

Baron Etraille , who surprised his wife in the arms of the Marquis of Cervigné , decides to separate from her "without noise." Six years later, he takes quick to Nice and runs into the Baroness...  

Looking at herself in the large mirror , Count Lormerin whispers : Lormerin still lives ! However, an invitation sent by a lost friend not seen for twenty-five years soon remind him his gray hair ...