"The White Wolf" (Le Loup) by Guy de Maupassant

Published 1890.

Marquis d'Arville: appears to be an entirely fictional person/title?

St. Hubert, a.k.a. Hubertus: a Christian saint who became the first bishop of Liège in 708 A.D. He is the patron saint of hunters, mathematicians, opticians and metalworkers, and known as the "Apostle of the Ardennes".

Baron des Ravels: apparently another fictional person/title?

battue: a hunting party arranged by driving game toward hunters by beaters

The picture used is "Battle at the Mountain Pass" by Seadraz, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).

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