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Boule de Suif
- Form
- Form Short Story
- Year
- Year 1880
- Originally in
- Originally in French
- Pages
- Pages 20
Fleeing occupied Rouen by coach, respectable citizens flatter a generous prostitute into sacrificing herself to a Prussian officer so they can travel on, then cut her dead.
And Boule de Suif still wept, and sometimes a sob she could not restrain was heard in the darkness between two verses of the song.
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