Boule de Suif by Guy de Maupassant | Full-Cast Audiobook | Ten Passengers, One Coach Out of Rouen

For several days in succession fragments of a defeated army had passed through the town. With Rouen in the hands of the Prussians, ten passengers set out in a four-horse coach at half-past four on a snowy morning, hoping to reach Havre by way of Dieppe: Loiseau the wholesale wine merchant and his wife, Monsieur Carré-Lamadon, a king in the cotton trade, and his young wife, the Count and Countess de Bréville, two nuns, Cornudet the democrat, and a courtesan whom the town calls "Boule de Suif" (Tallow Ball). The snow slows the coach, no one else has thought to bring food, and at three o'clock it is Boule de Suif who draws from under the seat a large basket: two whole chickens in jelly, pies, fruit, and four bottles of claret. At the inn at Totes, a Prussian officer will not let them go on, and the innkeeper keeps bringing the same message: "The Prussian officer sends to ask Mademoiselle Elisabeth Rousset if she has changed her mind yet." Listen to Guy de Maupassant's Boule de Suif as a full-cast audiobook: Boule de Suif, Loiseau and Madame Loiseau, Monsieur and Madame Carré-Lamadon, the Count and Countess de Bréville, Cornudet, the elder nun, Monsieur and Madame Follenvie, the Prussian officer and the other speaking parts each keep one consistent voice from the first line to the last, and a separate narrator reads the story. English subtitles appear on screen, and English captions (CC) are available too. Narration: AI voices (American English), one fixed voice per speaker. Story: Boule de Suif Author: Guy de Maupassant Language: English (translation) English source text: Project Gutenberg (eBook No. 3090) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3090 Audio production and presentation: NOVEL NIGHTS #GuyDeMaupassant #BouleDeSuif #Audiobook