Guy de Maupassant - Les Dimanches d’un bourgeois de Paris (Illustre)

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An illustrated edition of Sundays of a Bourgeois (an English title) by Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (full name), a popular French writer of XIX-th century, who considered to be one of the foundators of the modern short-story.
From author: M. Patissot, born in Paris, after having failed in his examinations at the College Henri IV., like many others, had entered the government service through the influence of one of his aunts, who kept a tobacco store where the head of one of the departments bought his provisions. He advanced very slowly, and would, perhaps, have died a fourth-class clerk without the aid of a kindly Providence, which sometimes watches over our destiny. He is today fifty-two years old, and it is only at this age that he is beginning to explore, as a tourist, all that part of France which lies between the fortifications and the provinces.
The story of his advance might be useful to many employees, just as the tale of his excursions may be of value to many Parisians who will take them as a model for their own outings, and will thus, through his example, avoid certain mishaps which occurred to him...


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