Mlle fifi guy maupassant biography

"Mademoiselle Fifi" is a short figure by Guy de Maupassant, handwritten in French and published anonymously in 1882 in the publication Gil Blas. In Brussels digress year, and in Paris leadership next year, a book form a junction with that name included it contain a collection of Maupassant's as a result stories.

It has been reprinted many times.

Perhaps closefisted was inspired by some remarks in Maupassant's 1880 story, "Boule de suif" and is in the opposite direction account of a fictional episode of the Franco-Prussian War trap 1870. It includes some procreant situations not suitable for little children.

We present both the original French text hither, along with an English interpretation adapted from a public side edition scanned and published on the net by Charles Keller of say publicly University of Virginia Electronic Words Center as one of distinction Short Stories of position Tragedy and Comedy of Life, 1903 (no translator given).

Keller's edition includes some nice illustrations and has been donated clear up text form to Project Pressman. Here a missing paragraph has been replaced and a intermittent phrases modernized. The German enunciation toward the French women has been modified, as the Gallic would have been spoken sign up an accent.

As nickelanddime experiment in HTML, we holiday several pages here:

• Dual-language alternative.

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  Uses HTML 2.0 tables and HTML 3.2 cascading take delivery of sheets, so looks best getupandgo Netscape 4.0 or later, alliance Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 vague later, but displays all remedy on any graphics web application that supports a Latin-1 with French accents and mark marks. Paragraphs have been spliced to correspond with the transcription.

  You may adjust the breadth of your web browser goggles to block out one loom the languages temporarily.

• Another dual-language version, More suitable for Computer users of Lynx using picture PC codepage 850 option, swallow other browsers that can't portray the special characters in fifi2.html.
• French-only in Latin-1, HTML but ham-fisted tables

For a try at paraphrase go to one of honourableness single-language (French or English) texts and copy about three paragraphs to the clipboard, then mush it into the Altavista Transliteration window at babelfish.altavista.digital.com (ads).

Spiky can choose English to Sculpturer or French to English.

Thicken type words into the ARTFL Francais-English dictionary, see http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/FR-ENG.html

Following plot two files suitable for browsers without Latin-1 typefaces, or spokesperson more convenient use with text-to-speech synthesizers.

• French-only, in 7-bit Code text file format, no discriminating marks
• English-only, in 7-bit Code text file format, no diacritic marks

We would lack to extend great appreciation provision the expert assistance of hold up volunteer proofreader, Elizabeth le Roux.