Upon meeting an old friend in the Champs-Élysées  (SHAWN-zay-lee-ZAY)  after ten years of hard work, the main character of this story learns that an object was worth just five hundred francs.
This story is the basis of Sloane Crosley's first novel, in which Victor's search for a piece of Nazi loot takes him to its author's estate. This story's narrator exclaims "How strange life is, how fickle!" after describing a "strong, hard, and rough" woman who talks loudly as she washes floors. This story's protagonist dreams of "fine dinners, of shining silverware" when a man exclaims "Beef stew! What could be better!" A man in this story (*)  buys his wife a dress so that they can attend a ball hosted by the Ministry of Education. Upon meeting an old friend in the Champs-Élysées  (SHAWN-zay-lee-ZAY)  after ten years of hard work, the main character of this story learns that an object was worth just five hundred francs. For 10 points, Mathilde Loisel  (mah-TEELD lwah-ZELL)  borrows a piece of fake jewelry in what Guy Maupassant story?
This story is the basis of Sloane Crosley's first novel, in which Victor's search for a piece of Nazi loot takes him to its author's estate.
"The  Necklace " [or The  Diamond Necklace "; or "La  Parure "]