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Title: Menuet Title Record # 2092987
Author: Guy de Maupassant
Date: 1882-11-20
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: French
Note: Borderline speculative: Jean Bridelle experiences this encounter like a sort of haunting. First published in Le Gaulois, 20 November 1882.
Synopsis: Jean Bridelle is walking in the Jardin du Luxembourg in the 19th century when he meets an elderly couple who had been galants at court in the Ancien Régime. They demonstrate some steps of an old minuet. Afterwards, he often thinks of them.
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Year Language Title
1903Translated by an uncredited translator, appeared in an edition of the works of Maupassant published by M. Walter Dunne, 1903.
English The Dancers
1910Published in 1910 in the Miromesnil Edition of Guy de Maupassant, an uncredited translation revised by Dora Knowlton Ranous. And also in in The Collected Novels and Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 2: Mademoiselle Fifi and Other Stories, translated by Ernest Boyd (Alfred A. Knopf, 1922).
English Minuet

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Contes fantastiques complets 1973-00-00 Guy de Maupassant Marabout (
Bibliothèque Marabout - Fantastique?Bibliotheque Marabout - Fantastique
#464)
    384
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll  
Contes fantastiques complets 1976-00-00 Guy de Maupassant Marabout (
Bibliothèque Marabout - Fantastique?Bibliotheque Marabout - Fantastique
#464)
    380+
[4]
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll Checkmark
Qui sait ?: et autres histoires étranges 1981-00-00 Guy de Maupassant Union générale d'éditions (Les maîtres de l'étrange et de la peur) 2-264-00345-6   297
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll Frank Sérac  
Contes fantastiques complets 1983-01-00 Guy de Maupassant Marabout (
Bibliothèque Marabout - Fantastique?Bibliotheque Marabout - Fantastique
#464)
2-501-00040-4   384
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll  
Contes de la bécasse 1994-08-00 Guy de Maupassant Gallimard (Folio classique #1144) 2-07-037144-1   214
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll Pierre-Auguste Renoir  
Contes fantastiques complets 1996-01-00 Guy de Maupassant Marabout (
Bibliothèque Marabout?Bibliotheque Marabout
#9001)
2-501-00948-7   384
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll  
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