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The Legend of Mont-Saint-Michel
Guy de Maupassant
Publication Year: 1882
Short StoryRealismfrench literaturefolk talereligion
A local peasant tells a visitor to the magnificent island abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel how the region’s patron saint tricked the devil out of Normandy in a way only a salt-of-the-earth native Norman could imagine.
