title: L'Inconnue
text: # L'Inconnue
  
  "L'Inconnue" is a short story by French author Guy de Maupassant, published in 1885.
  
  ## Synopsis
  
  On the Concorde bridge, baron Roger des Annettes meets a stranger who has "an effect... an astonishing effect" on him.
  
  ## Publication
  
  L'Inconnue was first published in the newspaper Gil Blas on January 27, 1885, before being reprised in the Monsieur Parent collection.
  
  ## Publications
  
  * Gil Blas, 1885
  * Monsieur Parent - collection published in 1885 by the editor Paul Ollendorff
  * Maupassant, contes et nouvelles, volume II, text established and annotated by Louis Forestier, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Éditions Gallimard, 1979
  