# Isidore Paturon — Short Fiction character guide

> Isidore Paturon in Short Fiction by Guy de Maupassant.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Isidore, Paturon, this Isidore

**First appearance:** 0003-short-fiction

## Who they are

A young man who is tricked into a marriage by a clever matchmaker.

## In the story

### [Coco](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_23_se/chapters/coco)

The fifteen-year-old farmhand, called Zidore, who cruelly torments and starves the horse Coco out of resentment.

### [Country Courts](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_23_se/chapters/country-courts)

Young peasant defendant, accused by Madame Bascule of breaking a promise to stay with her; he claims he stayed only for the promised land.

### [Madame Husson's May King](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_23_se/chapters/madame-husson-s-may-king)

The notoriously chaste young man chosen as May King, who later falls into debauchery and alcoholism.

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