Miss Fifi

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Mademoiselle Fifi
(cover from 1898)

Miss Fifi (French Mademoiselle Fifi ) is a novella by Guy de Maupassant . It was first published in 1882 by Kistenmackers, Brussels. The story was published in German in 1898.

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After the Franco-Prussian War , some German officers are quartered in the castle of d'Urville. They dispel their boredom by destroying the art objects found in the castle. One of them is Lieutenant Baron Wilhelm von Eyrick. He is described as brutal and arrogant. His comrades call him Mademoiselle Fifi because of his flirtatious demeanor, slim waist and frequent use of the French phrase "fi fi donc". The officers decide to have a party. For this purpose, prostitutes invited. At the feast, von Eyrick behaves very brutally towards the girl assigned to him and insults her national pride, whereupon she sticks a knife in his throat and flees through the window. The officer dies. At the funeral, the church bells ring on the orders of the German commanders, something the residents have always refused to do to the occupiers. The search for the perpetrator remains fruitless. She hides in the church tower. After the occupiers leave, she returns to her brothel. Finally a man takes her to himself, “[...] because of her beautiful deed he had developed a weakness for her; then he loved her for her own sake; he married her and made her a lady who was worth as much as many others. "

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