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 1 Int|    Maupassant when the Contes de la Bécasse and Bel Ami were
 2 Int|        soul, the little soul, of la petite Roque.~And yet Maupassant
 3 Int|    writer because, like Molière, La Bruyère, and La Fontaine,
 4 Int|         Molière, La Bruyère, and La Fontaine, he is always close
 5 Int|         devotee of the “culte de la Dame.”~Everywhere he was
 6 I  | needlework tapestry illustrating La Fontaine’s fables, and Jeanne
 7 II |        air, cried: “Well, Madame la Baronne, how are you?” It
 8 III|       huntsman in his château of La Vrillette, built on a pond.
 9 VII|        yourself. No doubt madame la baronne will do something
10 VII|         disturb yourself, Madame la Baronne, do not disturb
11 IX |              CHAPTER IX~DEATH OF LA BARONNE~As Jeanne’s health
12 IX |      toward her.~“Madame, Madame la Baronne is very bad!”~A
13 IX |    address was certainly “Madame la Baronne Le Perthuis des
14 X  |           it is a wrench, madame la comtesse. I have been here
15 X  |          coming home together to La Vrillette, where they were
16 XI |        German-French for “Madame la Vicomtesse,” and after many