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Œuvres complètes de Guy de Maupassant - volume 26

Chapter 28: TABLE DES MATIÈRES.
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The narrative follows a nobleman and his beautiful wife whose routine outing becomes a prolonged confrontation when she denounces years of coercion: he has driven her into repeated pregnancies to spoil her beauty and parade their children as trophies. She recounts humiliation, enforced isolation, and a possession-driven affection for the offspring that masks cruelty. The story examines marital violence, gendered ownership, and the social performance of parenthood, portraying the physical and psychological toll of treating motherhood as an instrument of control through incisive domestic scenes that reveal brutality beneath polite appearances.

TABLE DES MATIÈRES.


  Pages.
L’Inutile Beauté. 1
Le Champ d’oliviers. 43
Mouche. 97
Le Noyé. 117
L’Épreuve. 135
Le Masque. 157
Un Portrait. 177
L’Infirme. 187
Les Vingt-cinq francs de la Supérieure. 201
Un Cas de divorce. 215
Qui sait? 231
Alexandre (inédit). 259