Its protagonist requests four hundred francs to buy a new dress, and lives in an apartment at the Rue des Martyrs.
Early on in this story the protagonist imagines "chambers hung with Oriental tapestries" and imagines "delicate meals, gleaming silver" while her husband admires their Scotch broth. Its protagonist requests four hundred francs to buy a new dress, and lives in an apartment at the Rue des Martyrs. Henry James' story "Paste" is a reversal of this story, in which after the protagonist loses the title borrowed object at the Minister of Education's ball, she and her spouse work for ten years to repay Madame Forestier. For 10 points, name this short story in which Mathilde Loisel does not realize the title object is fake, a work by Guy de Maupassant.
Early on in this story the protagonist imagines "chambers hung with Oriental tapestries" and imagines "delicate meals, gleaming silver" while her husband admires their Scotch broth.
"The {Necklace}" [or "La {Parure}"]