The shepherd's leap

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The shepherd's jump (French: Le saut du berger , also ud T. The shepherd's jump ) is a novella by Guy de Maupassant , which he published for the first time under the pseudonym Maufrigneuse on March 9, 1882 in Le Gil Blas . The second publication took place in 1899 in the short story volume Le Père Milon. The narrative appears slightly modified as an anecdote in the novel Une Vie ( One Life ).

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The narrator is on the Normandy coast between Dieppe and Le Havre . The steep coast is called "The Shepherd's Jump". In the small village where the narrator stayed there once lived an ascetic pastor who was extremely hostile to sexuality. So he killed a birthing dog in the presence of several peasant children. One evening the pastor surprised a couple in a car parked on the slope. He pushed the wagon down the Shepherd's Jump. The two lovers were shattered in the abyss. But a customs officer had observed the murder. The pastor was arrested the following Sunday and subsequently sentenced to forced labor.

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