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Le Baptême (short story)

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Country
  
France

Publication date
  
1885

Author
  
Guy de Maupassant

Language
  
French

Originally published
  
1885

Published in
  
Gil Blas

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"Le Baptême" is a short story by the French author Guy de Maupassant. The story was published in 1885.

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History

Le Baptême is a short story written by Guy de Maupassant. It was first published in the newspaper Gil Blas on 13 January 1885, before being reprised in the Monsieur Parent collection.

This text should not be confused with a short story of the same name which was published in 1884. This story begins with the following words:

Allons, docteur, un peu de cognac...

Synopsis

The story is about an old navy doctor who lives in a country house near Pont-l'Abbé. His gardener, Kérandec, has asked the doctor to be the godfather to his son. On 2 January, they set off to the church.

Publications

  • Gil Blas, 1885
  • Monsieur Parent - collection published in 1885 by the editor Paul Ollendorff
  • Maupassant, contes et nouvelles, volume II, text established and annotated by Louis Forestier, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Éditions Gallimard, 1979

    • References

    Le Baptême (short story) Wikipedia
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