Un duel english translation maupassant biography
English translation sinhala.
Guy de Maupassant
“A Duel”
Translated by Matthew Yost
The war was over; the Germans had occupied France; the country still twitched like a beaten wrestler, pinned beneath his victorious opponent’s knee.
The first trains began leaving a panic-stricken, starved and desperate Paris.
Un duel english translation maupassant biography
They plied along slowly, across the landscape and through villages, on their way to the country’s newly contrived borders. The first passengers to leave the city watched wasted fields and razed hamlets roll past the windows of their train.
Prussian soldiers—decked out in their black, copper-spiked headgear, smoking their pipes and sitting astride chairs, were in front of any house that remained standing. Others worked or chatted as though they belonged to the families that quartered them.
In the larger towns, the passengers saw entire regiments drilling in the squares, and despite the grinding of the wheels beneath them, harsh commands still sometimes rea