Tribunaux rustiques

"Tribunaux rustiques"
Short story by Guy de Maupassant
Country	France
Language	French
Publication
Published in	Gil Blas
Publication date	1884
Chronology
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"Tribunaux rustiques" is a short story by French author Guy de Maupassant, published in 1884.

History

It was first published in the newspaper Gil Blas on November 25, 1884, and signed under the name "Maufrigneuse". In 1885 it was reprised in the Monsieur Parent collection.[1]

Synopsis

In the chamber of the justice of the peace of Gorgeville, which is full of peasants, a judge hears the grievances of Madame Victoire Bascule against Isidore Paturon...

Editions

• Gil Blas, 1884
• 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