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Le port

Guy de Maupassant

After four years at sea, the three-masted Notre-Dame-des-Vents returns to Marseille. Sailor Célestin Duclos and his companions celebrate ashore, where an unexpected encounter confronts him with a tragic family past. Maupassant’s dark short story explores separation, poverty, and the cruelty of fate.

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