L'Inconnue

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"La Confidence"
Short story by Guy de Maupassant
Country	France
Language	French
Publication
Published in	Gil Blas
Publication date	1885
Chronology
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"L'Inconnue" is a short story by French author Guy de Maupassant, published in 1885.

Synopsis

On the Pont de la Concorde in Paris, baron Roger des Annettes meets a stranger who has "an effect... an astonishing effect" on him.

Publication

L'Inconnue was first published in the newspaper Gil Blas on January 27, 1885, before being reprised in the Monsieur Parent collection.[1]

Editions

• Gil Blas, 1885
• Monsieur Parent - collection published in 1885 by the editor Paul Ollendorff
• Maupassant, contes et nouvelles, volume II, text established and annotated by Louis Forestier, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Éditions Gallimard, 1979

References

1. Maupassant, Contes et nouvelles, II, Éditions Gallimard, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 1979, (ISBN 978-2-07-010805-3)

External links

• An omnibus collection of Maupassant's short fiction at Standard Ebooks
• The Unknown public domain audiobook at LibriVox