Mont-Oriol (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Guy de Maupassant
- First Published: 1887
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Satire
- Time of Work: Mid-nineteenth century
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire
- Subjects: France or French people, Nineteenth century, Marriage, Pregnancy, Blackmail, Adultery, Illegitimacy, Rivers or waterways, Resorts or spas
- Locales: Auvergne, France
Places Discussed
*Enval. French resort in which the novel opens with a description that creates a mood of the overpowering force of nature that persists throughout Mont-Oriol: “the charm of the little village, amid the shadow of gigantic trees, whose gnarled trunks seemed as large as the houses. Besides this they were drawn there by the fame of the gorges at the end of the weird valley, which opens on the great plain of Auvergne and ends abruptly, at the foot of a high mountain studded with ancient craters, in a wild rift filled with fallen and overhanging...
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