Boule de Suif

Guy de Maupassant

⏱ 8 minFrench classic

A despised prostitute is shamed by her genteel fellow-travellers into sacrificing herself to a Prussian officer, and, once they are free, coldly cast off again. Maupassant's savage, perfect story of the war.

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