Guy de Maupassant

Guy de Maupassant was born on 5 August 1850 in Normandy, near Dieppe. His parents separated when he was a child, and he was raised by his mother, Laure Le Poittevin, a highly cultured woman. Flaubert, whom he met as a teenager, took him under his protection and became his master in literature. A volunteer during the war of 1870, he was afterwards a clerk at the Ministry of the Navy and then, in 1878, at the Ministry of Public Instruction. Revealed in 1880 by a short story that Flaubert hailed as a masterpiece, he wrote more than three hundred short stories and six novels, and died in Paris on 6 July 1893.

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• Short storiesThe HorlaLe HorlaGuy de Maupassant · 1887LiteraturePublic domain