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"L'Inconnue" is a short story by French author
Guy de Maupassant Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (, ; ; 5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a 19th-century French author, remembered as a master of the short story form, as well as a representative of the Naturalist school, who depicted human lives, destin ...
, published in 1885.


Synopsis

On the Concorde bridge, baron Roger des Annettes meets a stranger who has "an effect... an astonishing effect" on him.


Publication

''L'Inconnue'' was first published in the newspaper
Gil Blas ''Gil Blas'' (french: L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane ) is a picaresque novel by Alain-René Lesage published between 1715 and 1735. It was highly popular, and was translated several times into English, most notably as The Adventures of G ...
on January 27, 1885, before being reprised in the ''Monsieur Parent'' collection.Maupassant, Contes et nouvelles, II, Éditions Gallimard, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 1979, ()


Publications

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Gil Blas ''Gil Blas'' (french: L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane ) is a picaresque novel by Alain-René Lesage published between 1715 and 1735. It was highly popular, and was translated several times into English, most notably as The Adventures of G ...
'', 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 The ''Bibliothèque de la Pléiade'' (, "Pleiades Library") is a French editorial collection which was created in 1931 by Jacques Schiffrin, an independent young editor. Schiffrin wanted to provide the public with reference editions of the c ...
,
Éditions Gallimard Éditions Gallimard (), formerly Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française (1911–1919) and Librairie Gallimard (1919–1961), is one of the leading French book publishers. In 2003 it and its subsidiaries published 1,418 titles. Founded by Ga ...
, 1979


References


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* * {{Authority control Works originally published in Gil Blas (periodical) Short stories by Guy de Maupassant 1885 short stories