The Apparition is a short story by French author Guy de Maupassant. - AsNotedIn
The subject of sequestration of the person came up in speaking of a recent lawsuit, and each of us had a story to tell- a true story, he said. We had been spending the evening together at an old family mansion in the Rue de Grenelle, just a party of intimate friends. The old Marquis de la Tour-Samuel, who was eighty-two, rose, and, leaning his elbow on the mantelpiece, said in his somewhat shaky voice:
| Y/M/D | Association | Description | Place | Locale | Food | Event | |
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| 1883/04/04 | Guy de Maupassant | Author | "The Apparition" by Guy de Maupassant is published in Le Gaulois. | ||||
| 1883/04/04 | Le Gaulois | Publisher | "The Apparition" by Guy de Maupassant is published in Le Gaulois. |
| Particulars for The Apparition (short story): | |||
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| Cultural Affiliation | Chateau, French Country House | a mansion in the French countryside, with grounds and support facilities, often servants | |
| Narrative Arts | Fiction | prose literature, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people | |
| Supernatural | Ghost | an apparition of a dead person which is believed to appear or become manifest to the living, typically as a nebulous image | |
| Narrative Arts | Narrative | an account of connected events | |
| Narrative Arts | Prose | ordinary written language | |
| Art Type | Short Story | short form narrative fiction | |
| Narrative Arts | Speculative Fiction | a genre of fiction that encompasses works in which the setting is other than the real world, involving supernatural, futuristic, or other imagined elements | |
| Paranormal | Supernatural | manifestation or event attributed to some force beyond scientific understanding or the laws of nature | |
| Social | tete-a-tete | a private conversation between two people | |
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| Original Language: | French | ||
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