A Life, Guy de Maupassant

Raised in a convent until the age of 17, Jeanne dreams of freedom, travel, and love. When she returns to her family home, the young woman is ready to embrace her life. It is then that she meets Julien Lamare's gaze; at the beating of her heart, Jeanne believes she has found her soulmate. Marriage will quickly shatter her illusions... Retracing a woman's life "from the moment her heart awakens until her death," Maupassant's first novel captures the impulses, hopes, disappointments, and tragedies that punctuate an existence, thus retranscribing its "humble truth." - Area of study: Fiction to question reality - Special educational dossier for new curricula - Extension: A Woman's Life by Stéphane Brizé (2016). Grade 8.