Maupassant is back on France 2.

Maupassant is back on France 2. The new cycle lasts the entire month of March, because of a new, followed by a story every Tuesday.

The Rose of Mrs. Husson, Denis Malleval, opened the way Tuesday, March 4, and it was a pure wonder. It is a farce and a fable at the same time. Rich owner Norman confite in devotion, Mrs. Husson bored. She feared for hi of his soul. Maupassant praises: "small, short-trotting, decorated with a silk black wig, ceremonial, polished, very good terms with the Good Lord represented by the abbot Malou." She has an idea which she immediately opens to the latter. Gisors, capital of the canton of Eure will grow by appointing a girl known for her virtue, a rosière. The city council, before the project approval. It is not for nothing that the notables of the city called themselves the "proud" of Gisors. We do this in the newspapers of Paris and, most importantly, it will infuriate the eternal rival Gisors, Gournay ... Marie-Anne Chazel is perfect in the role of Lady charity driven by vanity. The only thing missing was neither a decorated timbered nor an umbrella. Unfortunately, virtuous girls are scarce in Gisors, and the investigation of morality carried out by Frances, the right of Mrs. Husson, is discouraging.

It Françoise precisely who enlightenment. If it was a rose, not a rosière? Because there is Isidore, the son of the market of fruit and vegetables. "Aged twenty years past, large, left, slow and fearful," writes Maupassant. He blushes when a girl looks. Good choice, again, with Julien Cottereau, actor circus came to this role virtually nothing. Isidore is expressed not only by grimaces. He agreed. It remains to convince the abbot Malou, annoyed by the new fad of his paroissienne. It sells for peace.

"After all, it is the virtue that you reward. Regardless of whether male or female," he says. The city council, after some hesitation, in turn surrendered. Gisors will have its rosier. There remains the thorny issue of costume. It Frances, once again, which is the solution: a complete blank. "It will look like a swan," she says. Mrs. Husson goes very proud, in the streets of Gisors, with this great dadais all dressed in white to his arm. The ceremony is grandiose, the endless banquet. Maupassant: "On the evening came, we were at the table since noon. Already floated in the valley fumes and milky thin, lightweight clothing night of streams and meadows." The next day, Isidore has fled to Paris with his prize money of virtue. It will do a week later, dépenaillé, dead drunk, and throwing obscenities at its benefactor