France
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a 19th-century French author, remembered as a master of the short story form, and as a representative of the Naturalist school, who depicted human lives and destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms.
Suzanne stays at the bedside of her dying sister, who she has lived with her whole life.
A magistrate is visited by a doctor who hides a dark secret behind his penetrating pale blue eyes.
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Maupassant's short masterpiece following the journey of a group of civilians during the Franco-Prussian war.
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The five girls and the refined, virtuous Madame of a Normandy brothel shut up shop in order to attend a confirmation.
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While travelling in Normandy a young artist meets a singularly unfriendly older woman.
A man is asked to collect some items from a house where the lover of an old acquaintance recently died.
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