In the opening paragraph of Guy de Maupassant's short story "The Necklace" it is revealed that Madame Loisel married a "minor civil servant at the Ministry of Education." In other words, Loisel is a bureaucrat for the French department of education. It is the reason why he is able to procure an invitation to the fancy ball at the Ministry where Madame Loisel loses the necklace. After failing to recover the lost necklace Monsieur and Madame...
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