La Maison Tellier by Guy de Maupassant

"La Maison Tellier" by Guy de Maupassant is a short story published in 1881. When a respected brothel in Fécamp suddenly closes, its frustrated clientele discovers an unexpected reason: Madame Tellier has taken her employees to attend her niece's first communion in a remote Norman village. The elegantly dressed women from the city create a stir among the villagers, and their emotional presence during the ceremony produces surprising effects that reach far beyond what anyone anticipated. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893
Title La Maison Tellier
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Maison_Tellier_(short_story) Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Maison_Tellier
Contents La maison Tellier -- Les tombales -- Sur l'eau -- Histoire d'une fille de ferme -- En famille -- Le papa de Simon -- Une partie de campagne -- Au printemps -- La femme de Paul.
Credits Produced by Miranda van de Heijning, Wilelmina Mallière and PG Distributed Proofreaders. This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at gallica.bnf.fr
Reading Level Reading ease score: 77.2 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language French
LoC Class PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Subject Short stories, French
Subject French fiction -- 19th century
Category Text
eBook-No. 11596
Release Date
Last Update Oct 28, 2024
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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