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Henri René Albert Guy deMaupassant
From: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Date: 20040101
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Henri Ren é Albert Guy deMaupassant
Henri Ren é Albert Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) is the most celebrated of French short-story writers. The brilliance of his technique is combined with an ethical nihilism.
Guy de Maupassant was born on Aug. 5, 1850, in Normandy; his exact birthplace has never been established. His father, a libertine with a roving disposition, and his mother were legally separated when Guy was still a boy, and he spent a carefree adolescence under the indulgent surveillance of his cultivated mother. When he reached man's estate, the place of his ...
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