Showing posts with label Maupassant (Guy de). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Maupassant (Guy de). Show all posts
19 February 2018

Maupassant in Étretat (76), Seine-Maritime (76)

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The street where Maurice Leblanc lived, and which is now an author's house, is in fact named after Guy de Maupassant. Maupassa...
18 February 2018

Maupassant in Fécamp (76), Seine-Maritime (76)

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La fontaine du Précieux-Sang . Legend has it that a little of Christ's blood, concealed in the trunk of a fig tree, fell from the car...
27 September 2016

Guy de Maupassant: Contes de la bécasse | Tales of the Woodcock (1883)

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I'll pass up on describing the exact nature of the signification of  Contes de la bécasse , or  Tales of the Woodcock  as the book...
24 September 2016

Maupassant: Pierre et Jean (1888)

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This is another book I found on my travels, again quite by chance but at the grave of Guy de Maupassant (which I just happened to be pass...
8 November 2011

Montparnasse Cemetery / Cimetière du Montparnasse, 14th arrondissement, Paris, France: Literary Île-de-France #16

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Joris Karl Huysmans (1848—97), still very much remembered for his novel À rebours (1884), which the decadent Pete Doherty named a song a...
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3 November 2011

Parc Monceau, 8th arrondissement, Paris, France: Literary Île-de-France #12

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Parc Monceau, in the 8th arrondissement at the junction of boulevard de Courcelles, rue de Prony, and rue Georges Berger is perhaps one of ...