Six different authors contributed stories about this war to the collection Evenings at Medan (“meh-DAN”). For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this war, the setting of the story “Two Friends.” In another story, a woman rings a church bell every day until the end of this war following a violent party.
ANSWER: Franco-Prussian War (The latter story is “Mademoiselle Fifi.”)
[10e] This French author of “The Necklace” set “Mademoiselle Fifi” and “Two Friends” during the Franco-Prussian War.
ANSWER: Guy de Maupassant (“GHEE duh MOH-pah-SAWN”)
[10m] Evenings at Medan included this other Maupassant story set during the Franco-Prussian War, in which the title woman is shamed by other passengers into sleeping with a Prussian officer in order to allow the safe passage of their stagecoach.
ANSWER: “Ball of Fat” [or “Boule de Suif” or “Dumpling” or “Butterball” or “Ball of Lard”]
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