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Henry-RenĂ©-Albert-Guy de Maupassant est un Ă©crivain et journaliste littĂ©raire français nĂ© le 5 aoĂ»t 1850 au chĂąteau de Miromesnil Ă Tourville-sur-Arques (Seine-InfĂ©rieure) et mort le 6 juillet 1893 Ă Paris.LiĂ© Ă Gustave Flaubert et Ă Ămile Zola, Maupassant a marquĂ© la littĂ©rature française par ses six romans, dont Une vieâŠ
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Maupassantâs story takes its name from the chubby prostitute at its centre, nicknamed âBowl of Fatâ. At the time of Prussian occupation of France, a group of petty bourgeoisie, upper bourgeoisie, noble and religious people encourage her to offer herself to a Prussian officer in return for the freedom to travel through an occupied town to Le Havre. Through this short novel, Maupassant reveals the hypocrisy and moral poverty of those who sit in the layers of society above such outcasts as âBoule de suifâ and, by contrast, both the moral solidity and even innocence of the âfallen womanââŠ
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