Some new, long and short, to describe those provincial couples, so close to MAUPASSANT ("The Master" as it is called LEBLANC), with the chiseled writing and sometimes a cruel and wicked MIRBEAU or ZOLA ... . Reading the Lupin was known that LEBLANC is a high-end stylist, confirm that the two collections of short stories published in Rouen Cliffs Editions. A wonder!