La Confidence

"La Confidence"
Short story by Guy de Maupassant
Country	France
Language	French
Publication
Published in	Gil Blas
Publication date	1885
Chronology
L'Inconnue   Le Baptême

"La Confidence" is a short story by French author Guy de Maupassant, published in 1885.

History

La Confidence is a short story written by Guy de Maupassant. It was first published in the periodical Gil Blas on August 20, 1885, before being reprised in the Monsieur Parent collection.[1]

Synopsis

The marquise of Rennedon tells her friend, the baroness of Grangerie, how she just took revenge on her abominable husband.

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