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Country
  
France

Publication date
  
1885

Originally published
  
1885

Published in
  
Le Gaulois

Language
  
French

Preceded by
  
"Imprudence"

Author
  
Guy de Maupassant

Followed by
  
Tribunaux rustiques

Similar
  
La Peur, La Confidence, Mother Savage

Un fou guy de maupassant


"Un fou" is a short story by French author Guy de Maupassant, published in 1885.

Contents

Lettre d un fou guy de maupassant livre audio


History

The short story was first published in the newspaper Le Gaulois on September 2, 1885, before being reprised in the Monsieur Parent collection.

This short story should not be confused with Un fou ?, published in 1884. The 1885 short story begins with the following words:

Il était mort chef d'un haut tribunal...

Synopsis

As secretary to a judge who is said to be an "honest magistrate whose irreproachable life was talked about in every court in France", a lawyer finds a strange journal.

Publications

  • Le Gaulois, 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

    Un fou Wikipedia


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