"The Port" is a short story by

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 ...

written in 1889 and translated by

Leo Tolstoy Count Lev Nikolayevich TolstoyTolstoy pronounced his first name as , which corresponds to the romanization ''Lyov''. () (; russian: link=no, Лев Николаевич Толстой,In Tolstoy's day, his name was written as in pre-refor ...

into Russian in 1891 as ''Françoise: A Story After Maupassant'' ("Франсуаза"). Other works by Maupaussant translated by Tolstoy include ''Too Dear!'', which is often included in the popular collection of Tolstoy's work ''Twenty Three Tales''. According to Daniel Rancour-Laferriere, a scholar at

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, it is a story about man who is talking to a prostitute whom he realizes is his sister. In 1894, about three years after translated this piece, Tolstoy commented that Maupassant was a powerful but immoral genius. Tolstoy is not known much for his translations, but according to the editors at

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, this was a period in Russian literary history where Russian masters translated foreign works into native Russian. Of course, Tolstoy's translation added some variations, particularly on the part of the character Duclos and how he interacted with the sailors.

Aylmer Maude Aylmer Maude (28 March 1858 – 25 August 1938) and Louise Maude (1855–1939) were English translators of Leo Tolstoy's works, and Aylmer Maude also wrote his friend Tolstoy's biography, ''The Life of Tolstoy''. After living many years in Russi ...

, the famous translator of Tolstoy's works, disagrees with modern scholars about the original title by Guy de Maupassant, suggesting the original title was actually ''Notre Dame de Vents'' ("Our Lady of the Winds").

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''Françoise''
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