Mademoiselle Fifi

by Guy de Maupassant

Book Overview

Mademoiselle Fifi is a collection of short stories by the French author, Henri Rene Guy de Maupassant. The book features eight stories, all set in France during the late 19th century. The title story, Mademoiselle Fifi, is a tale of a group of German soldiers who take over a French village during the Franco-Prussian War. The soldiers, led by a cruel and sadistic officer named Fifi, terrorize the villagers and force them to participate in a decadent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1419131990
• ISBN13: 9781419131998
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
• Length: 60 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 7.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Mademoiselle Fifi

Mademoiselle Fifi demonstrates the mastery that Guy de Maupassant exerts over the short story structure. Mademoiselle Fifi is at once brilliant, suggestive, and finally horrifying. A brief note on plot-- it is a fictional account of German occupation during the Franco-Prussian War. If tales such as Mademoiselle Fifi ever become substantiated by real-life accouts, you'll likely be shocked by German war crimes that well predated the Second World War...