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What jobs does Monsieur Loisel take on after his wife loses the necklace?

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 Loisel sink into a life of poverty because they have to repay the debt incurred in replacing Madame Forestier's necklace. They have to give up their comfortable apartment and dismiss their maid. In order to pay back the debt, plus "exorbitant" interest rates, Monsieur Loisel not only works his day job at the Ministry but also takes on two night jobs working as an accountant and a copier (in a time before copy machines):



Her husband worked in the evenings, putting a shopkeeper's ledgers in order, and often at night as well, doing copying at twenty-five centimes a page.


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