Guy de Maupassant

Guy de Maupassant was born in 1850 in Normandy, France, and grew up near the coast at Étretat. His parents separated when he was a child. He studied law in Paris, but his studies were interrupted when he volunteered for the army in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871. Afterward he worked as a clerk in government ministries in Paris. His mother's friend, the novelist Gustave Flaubert, became his mentor, reading his work and introducing him to other writers. His story Boule de Suif (1880), about a group of travelers fleeing the Prussian army, was an immediate success, and he soon left his job to write full time. In about ten years he wrote some three hundred short stories, six novels, travel books and poems. His stories, such as The Necklace, about a woman who borrows a necklace and loses it, are known for their clear style, sharp observation of ordinary people and surprising endings. His novels include Bel-Ami. He suffered from serious illness, and after a mental breakdown he died in a clinic in Paris in 1893.

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Faith: Kept a lifelong hostility to religion from his church-school education. Source: Wikipedia