"Useless Beauty" - is a splendid short story by the world famous French writer Guy de Maupassant (French: Guy de Maupassant, 1850 - 1893). Count de Mascaret is married to the most beautiful woman in Paris. Once they go for a walk and the wife with all her behavior shows the husband that his presence is extremely unpleasant to her and that their relations are over. The count cannot understand what ...