Mont Oriol

Publisher Marketing: En Enval, corazon del valle de Auvernia, se descubre un manantial de aguas termales que convoca un gran numero de personas e intereses que empiezan a producir curaciones milagrosas, medicos que compiten en numero de enfermos y tipos de terapias, campesinos que ven multiplicado el valor comercial de sus tierras, especuladores citadinos con grandes proyectos para hacerse millonarios, y mujeres. Alli una noble mujer casada, Christiane, se entrega a un hombre apasionado que se postra ante ella para besar su sombra, y vive por vez primera la experiencia frenetica y extatica del amor." Contributor Bio:  de Maupassant, Guy de Maupassant was born of upper-middle-class parents in Normandy. He lived with his motehr at Etretat, a newly fashionable seaside resort. Having enrolled as a law student in 1869, he was called up after the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 and served as a quartermaster's clerk in Rouen. Following the war he left the army and eventually secured a post as a minor civil servant.