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A PARISIAN AFFAIR AND OTHER STORIES
By GUY DE MAUPASSANT
A Parisian Affair and Other Stories
By Guy de Maupassant
Print ISBN 13: 978-1-4209-7180-4
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Cover Image: a detail of “Boule de Suif”, by Paul Emile Boutigny, c. 1884, (oil on canvas) / Bridgeman Images.
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CONTENTS
Hautot Senior and Hautot Junior
Ball of Tallow
For several days in succession fragments of a defeated army had passed through the town. They were mere disorganized bands, not disciplined forces. The men wore long, dirty beards and tattered uniforms; they advanced in listless fashion, without a flag, without a leader. All seemed exhausted, worn out, incapable of thought or resolve, marching onward merely by force of habit, and dropping to the ground with fatigue the moment they halted. One saw, in particular, many enlisted men, peaceful citizens, men who lived quietly on their income, bending
