Monsieur Parent

“Monsieur Parent” is a short story by Guy de Maupassant, published in 1885. In the theater, the scorned husband is a comic character. In reality, he often has the pathos of Monsieur Parent, whose life is a hell endured patiently for the love of a child that his traitorous wife, finally unmasked, takes away, claiming that he is not his. Twenty years and a chance incident will be necessary for this gentle man to discover how to take revenge.