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Title: The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 (of 8)
Une Vie and Other Stories

Author: Guy de Maupassant 1850-1893

Release Date: June 1, 2007 [EBook #21655]

Language: English

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The Works of Guy de Maupassant

VOLUME V

UNE VIE
AND OTHER STORIES

_ILLUSTRATED_

NATIONAL LIBRARY COMPANY
NEW YORK

Copyright, 1909, By
BIGELOW, SMITH & CO.

CONTENTS

PAGE

A Woman's Life (Une Vie) 1

Hautot Senior and Hautot Junior 268

Little Louise Roque 287

Mother and Daughter 335

A Passion 341

No Quarter 352

The Impolite Sex 361

Woman's Wiles 369

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INTRODUCTION

By Edmund Gosse

The most robust and masculine of recent French novelists is a typical
Norman, sprung from an ancient noble family, originally of Lorraine, but
long settled in the Pays de Caux. The traveler from England towards
Paris, soon after leaving Dieppe, sees on his left hand, immediately
beyond the station of St. Aubin, a handsome sixteenth-century house, the
Chateau de Miromesnil, on a hill above the railway. Here, surrounded by
the relics of his warlike and courtly ancestors, Henri Rene Albert Guy
de Maupassant was born on the 5th of August, 1850. He was early
associated with the great Norman master of fiction, Gustave Flaubert,
who perceived his genius and enthusiastically undertook the training of
his intelligence. Through 1870 and 1871 the young man served in the war
as a common soldier.