Chez Maupassant

Rose, a young farm girl, has a child with a seasonal worker who abandoned her. Her master, unaware of the situation, asks her to marry him. Rose refuses.

Dreaming of pomp and luxury, the wife of a Ministry employee borrows a diamond necklace from a friend for an evening. When she returns from an evening, she loses it

The daughter of the clerk Cachelin is the sole heiress of a wealthy old aunt. Cachelin therefore has his daughter married to his colleague. The aunt dies shortly after the marriage but the will conditions the inheritance on the birth of a child...

In Paris under siege, two men recognise each other: Sauvage and Morissot. Before the war, every Sunday, they would meet while fishing... but times are hard now. If only they could find the peace of those moments by going fishing, even if it was just for a day...

The young farmer Césaire marries Céleste against the will of Father Amable, his old priest, who refuses to support Céleste's child that she had with another man. The family nevertheless settles on the farm. Césaire exhausts himself with work and dies, leaving Father Amable and Céleste alone, face to face...

During a hunting trip, Hautot Senior is seriously injured. Before dying, he reveals to his son that he has been having a secret affair with a young seamstress for a long time. He asks his son to watch over her...

Chenal, a famous painter, shows his friends a work from his youth that takes him back in time. At the time, he was roaming the countryside with his easel under his arm. In an inn, he met Miss Harriet, a very prudish old English maid. This encounter marked him for life...

A fine dining innkeeper is struck by a stroke that leaves him bedridden. His wife, seeing that he has become useless, forces him to hatch eggs...