In the canon
Three Tales
- Form
- Form Short Story Collection
- Year
- Year 1877
- Originally in
- Originally in French
- Pages
- Pages 130
In a Normandy kitchen a stuffed parrot stands green and moth-eaten on a shelf, and an old servant kneels in front of it. Félicité has lost the man who jilted her, the child she raised, the nephew who died of fever a world away, and the bird was the last warm thing left to her.
For half a century the housewives of Pont-l’Evêque had envied Madame Aubain her servant Félicité.
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