Guy de Maupassant
French author and playwright
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a 19th-century French author, celebrated as a master of the short story, as well as a representative of the naturalist school, depicting human lives, destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often... Wikipedia
Born: August 5, 1850, Château de Miromesnil, Tourville-sur-Arques, France
Died: July 6, 1893 (age 42 years), Passy, Paris, France
Influenced by: Gustave Flaubert, Émile Zola, Honoré de Balzac, and more
Education: Lycée Pierre-Corneille (1868–1869), Lycée Henri-IV, and University of Paris
Children: Honoré Lucien Litzelmann and Jeanne Lucienne Litzelmann
Parents: Gustave de Maupassant and Laure Le Poittevin
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