Contes de la Bécasse
1883
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Le vieux baron des Ravots avait été pendant quarante ans le roi des chasseurs de sa province. Mais, depuis cinq à six années, une paralysie des jambes le clouait à son fauteuil, et il ne pouvait plus que tirer des pigeons de la fenêtre de son salon ou du haut de son grand perron.
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Author
Guy de Maupassant
Author · 165 books
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a popular 19th-century French writer. He is one of the fathers of the modern short story. A protege of Flaubert, Maupassant's short stories are characterized by their economy of style and their efficient effortless dénouement. He also wrote six short novels. A number of his stories often denote the futility of war and the innocent civilians who get crushed in it - many are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s.
