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Mademoiselle Fifi. Mademoiselle Fifi is a collection of short stories by Guy de Maupassant published in 1882. [1] The stories are: "Mademoiselle Fifi" "The Practical Joker" "The Door" "The Hair" "Our Letters" "Queen Hortense" "Moonlight" "The Father" "The Coup d'État" "Bed Twenty-Nine" "The Jewels" "The Baby" "The Umbrella" "The Family Circle ...
Guy de Maupassant "Mademoiselle Fifi" is a short story by French writer Guy de Maupassant, published in 1882 in a collection of the same title.Like many of his short stories, such as Boule de Suif and Deux Amis, the story is set during the Franco-Prussian War and explores themes of class barriers, contrasts between the French and German participants, and the pointlessness of the war.
Agnes of Nothing (French: Agnès de rien) is a 1950 French drama film directed by Pierre Billon and starring Danièle Delorme, Yvonne de Bray and Paul Meurisse. [1] [2] It is based on the novel of the same title by Germaine Beaumont. [3] It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Raymond ...
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"Miriam" is a short story written by Truman Capote. It was originally published in the June 1945 issue of Mademoiselle . [ 1 ] " Miriam" was one of Capote's first published short stories, and in 1946 it earned an O. Henry Award in the category Best First-Published Story.
Nabokov's Dozen is a 1958 collection of 13 short stories by Vladimir Nabokov previously published in American magazines. [1] Nine of them also previously appeared in Nine Stories. All were later reprinted within The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov. Two stories, First Love (as Colette) and Mademoiselle O are also included in Nabokov's Speak, Memory.
Five of the eight stories in the collection had already been published in various magazines, like Revue politique et littéraire and La Vie Moderne, and three were originals. [ 1 ] The introduction includes a dedication that reads: "À Ivan Tourgueniev, hommage d'une affection et d'une grande admiration" (translated as "To Ivan Turgenev , an ...
A sequel, L'incomparable mademoiselle C., followed in 2004 and is based on Une bien curieuse factrice and Une drôle de ministre. There have also been plans to Maïna on the big screen. For Radio-Canada , Demers hosted a children's show called Dominique raconte... , where she read approximately 150 books to young viewers.