In a story set during this war, a draper and a watchmaker are executed by enemy soldiers for refusing to reveal the password of their country's defense lines. A woman uses a hay-loft to burn down a house with enemy soldiers in it after her son dies during this war. This war, the backdrop of "Two Friends" and “Mother Savage,” sets a work in which a woman who shares a basket of food with her wagonmates is made to sleep with an enemy officer for passage to Le Havre. For 10 points, name this setting of Guy de Maupassant's "Ball of Fat," a war France lost against its eastern neighbor in 1870.
In a story set during this war, a draper and a watchmaker are executed by enemy soldiers for refusing to reveal the password of their country's defense lines. A woman uses a hay-loft to burn down a house with enemy soldiers in it after her son dies during this war. This war, the backdrop of "Two Friends" and “Mother Savage,” sets a work in which a woman who shares a basket of food with her wagonmates is made to sleep with an enemy officer for passage to Le Havre. For 10 points, name this setting of Guy de Maupassant's "Ball of Fat," a war France lost against its eastern neighbor in 1870.
In a story set during this war, a draper and a watchmaker are executed by enemy soldiers for refusing to reveal the password of their country's defense lines.