A collection of works by the French writer Guy de Maupassant, published in 1884 by Paul Ollendorff, includes the novellas: "The Rondoli Sisters," "The Mistress," "Little Barrel," "He," "My Uncle Sostène," "Andre’s Illness," "The Cursed Bread," "The Case of Madame Luneau," "The Sage," "The Umbrella," "The Sliding Panel," "The Meeting," "Suicides," "Awarded with an Order!", "Scarves," "The Kiss." Most of them had previously been published in newspapers such as "Le Gaulois" and "Gil Blas," and Maupassant sometimes used the pseudonym Maufrignies (the name of a frivolous and free-spirited duchess from Balzac’s "The Human Comedy").