“At first no one spoke. Boule de Suif dared not even raise her eyes. She felt at once indignant with her neighbors, and humiliated at having yielded to the Prussian into whose arms they had so hypocritically cast her.”

— Guy De Maupassant , book Boule de Suif

Boule de Suif (1880)

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French writer 1850–1893

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