One of this work's characters is described as a man who has been ";dipping his red beard in tankards of democratic cafes"; and was once convinced he had been made prefect on the Fourthof September.  
One of this work's characters is described as a man who has been ";dipping his red beard in tankards of democratic cafes"; and was once convinced he had been made prefect on the Fourthof September.  A woman in this work states that she wishes to treat ";scores of Frenchmen"; dying of smallpox in a hospital. As two nuns pretend to meditate, its title character is told stories about Judith and Holofernes, ";and the matrons of Rome"; immediately before people stop calling her";madame"; instead using ";madamoiselle."; Its title character eats a chicken wing and Regence rolls and gives them to her companions when they are starving, though they do not reciprocate at the climax, leaving her to cry. This story ends with Cornudet whistling and humming La Marseillaise after Elisabeth Rousset gives in and sleeps with a Prussian soldier. For 10 points, name this Guy de Maupassant story whose title refers to a portly prostitute.
One of this work's characters is described as a man who has been ";dipping his red beard in tankards of democratic cafes"; and was once convinced he had been made prefect on the Fourthof September.  
"Boule de Suif" [or "Ball of Fat" or "Dumpling", "Butterball", or "Ball of Lard"]