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Answer by Gareth Rees for In Maupassant's Bel-Ami, why would it be...

The mixed commissions were kangaroo courts set up by the régime of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte after the coup of 1851 to punish suspected Republican sympathisers. The name “mixed” refers to their being...

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In Maupassant's Bel-Ami, why would it be compromising for a magistrate to...

In the second chapter of Part Two of Maupassant's novel Bel-Ami, Georges Duroy's wife turns out to have interesting connections that allow the couple to write newspaper articles that can make or break...

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