Question

At the end of one story, Madame de Peyrehorade blames recent frosts on one of these objects which was cast from a statue with the inscription “CAVE AMANTEM.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these objects. In Guy de Maupassant’s “Mademoiselle Fifi,” the Abbe Chantavoine’s only resistance against the Prussian occupation is a refusal to use these objects.
ANSWER: church bells
[10h] Alphonse de Peyrehorade accidentally gives his wedding ring to the title statue of this Prosper Mérimée short story and is killed by the statue on his wedding night.
ANSWER: “La Vénus d’Ille” [or “The Venus of Ille”]
[10e] The narrator compares the math teacher Florabela to the Venus d’Ille, among other unflattering things, in Solenoid, a novel from this country. Tristan Tzara and Eugene Ionesco moved to France from this country.
ANSWER: Romania (Solenoid is by Mircea Cǎrtǎrescu.)
<Literature - European Literature - Short Fiction>

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