M. Savalle, a small-town notary and amateur operatic singer with pretensions, travels to Paris to visit the opera and takes the opportunity to rub shoulders with famous artists in the cafés of Montmartre.
He is unexpectedly invited to a housewarming party by a notable painter … but things do not go at all as he expected. His host vanishes unexpectedly and M. Savalle is left in charge of the occasion.
When the guests arrive, they mistake him for the waiter … and from there things only get worse.
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Guy de Maupassant (1850–1893) was a popular nineteenth-century French writer, considered one of the fathers of the modern short story and one of the form’s finest exponents. A protégé of Flaubert, his stories are characterized by their economy of style and efficient, effortless dénouement. Many of the stories are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s, and several describe the futility of war and the innocent civilians who, caught in the conflict, emerge changed. He authored some three hundred short stories, six novels, three travel books, and one volume of verse.
Cathy Dobson is the author of Planet Germany and a narrator of audiobooks.