In a short story by this man, an unfortunate man gorges himself on a banquet at the Chateau de Champignet before willingly becoming a prisoner of war.
In a short story by this man, an unfortunate man gorges himself on a banquet at the Chateau de Champignet before willingly becoming a prisoner of war. The mayor of a town tries to kill himself by intentionally standing under a falling tree in a story by this author in which that mayor rapes and murders Little Louise Roque. This author of "Walter Schnaff's Adventure" described the democrat (*) Cornudet whistling La Marseillaise on a carriage ride from Rouen to Le Havre after the prostitute Elisabeth Rousset sleeps with a Prussian officer. In one of his best known stories, Mathilde Loisel and her husband struggle to replace the lost title object, which turns out to be a fake. For 10 points, name this French author of "Ball of Fat" and "The Necklace".
In a short story by this man, an unfortunate man gorges himself on a banquet at the Chateau de Champignet before willingly becoming a prisoner of war.
Guy de Maupassant [or Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant]