"Le Baptême" is a short story by the French author Guy de Maupassant. The story was published in 1885.

This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. (November 2021)

It was first published in the newspaper Gil Blas on 13 January 1885, before being reprised in the Monsieur Parent collection.^[1]

This text should not be confused with a short story of the same name which was published in 1884. This story begins with the following words:

Allons, docteur, un peu de cognac...

The story is about an old navy doctor who lives in a country house near Pont-l'Abbé. His gardener, Kérandec, has asked the doctor to be the godfather to his son. On 2 January, they set off to the church.

• 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