Tallow Ball / Guy de Maupassant "The woman, one of those called gallant, was famous for its early overweight which earned him the nickname tallow ball. Small, round everywhere, greasy bacon, with small puffy fingers choked at the phalanges, like chaplets of short sausages, with a shiny and taut skin, a huge gorge that jutted under her dress, she remained, however appetizing and run both its freshness was a pleasure to see; his face was a red apple, a peony bud ready to bloom, and in there souvraient, top, beautiful black eyes, shaded by thick lashes that put big shadow within; below, a charming mouth, narrow, moist for kissing, furnished with shining and microscopic baby teeth. " Such was Miss Elizabeth Rousset, nicknamed suet ball. A young person without manners and without malice. This story written in 1879 was considered a pure masterpiece Doeuvre by Gustave Flaubert. This was the first great success of Maupassant. The action is during the 1870 war against the Prussians. A group of people fled to the enemy diligence that invades the city of Rouen. A series of facts and dattitudes will translate within this diligence and in a hostel, hypocrisy and meanness ranging up linfamie, the wealthy burghers and two nuns at the Legard young Elizabeth Rousset. In a stunning limpid style, with the right words and a hard look on his contemporaries and humanity in general, Maupassant finely and subtly evokes the vanity and conceit of "decent people", never judgmental, leaving the single drive this care. Land pessimism author shines with vigor in these lines. As Brassens said, "honest people" are not always those that think lon.
