title: The Complete Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant
author:  Guy de Maupassant 
description: a 1941 collection of stories in a soft covered book for ease of handling that comes with a hard little box to keep it in
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  Mademoiselle Fifi
  
  
  [Preface](Mademoiselle%20Fifi_split_001.html#filepos1655)
  
  
  [Mademoiselle Fifi](Mademoiselle%20Fifi_split_002.html#filepos7597)
  
  
    
    
  [Boule de Suif](Mademoiselle%20Fifi_split_002.html#filepos40291)
  
  
  # Mademoiselle Fifi
  
  
  ### Guy de Maupassant
  
  
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  * Preface
  
  
  
  
  
  * [Mademoiselle Fifi](Mademoiselle%20Fifi_split_002.html#filepos7597)
  
  
    * [Boule de Suif](Mademoiselle%20Fifi_split_002.html#filepos40291)
  
  
  
  
      
  
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  ### Preface
  
  
  Guy de Maupassant
  
  
  Guy de Maupassant was born at the Chateau de Miromesnil, near
  
  
  Dieppe, on August 5th, 1850. The Maupassants were an old Lorraine
  
  
  family who had settled in Normandy in the middle of the Eighteenth
  
  
  Century. His father had married in 1846 a young lady of the rich
  
  
  bourgeoisie, Laure Le Poittevin. With her brother Alfred, she h