Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (UK: /ˈmoʊpæsɒ̃/, US: /ˈmoʊpəsɒnt, ˌmoʊpəˈsɒ̃/; French: [ɡi d(ə) mopasɑ̃]; 5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a 19th-century...
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Guy de Maupassant wrote short stories, novels, travel accounts and poetry. Le Champ d'oliviers L'Inutile Beauté Mouche Qui sait ? Après Le Colporteur...
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This article lists the complete bibliography of short stories by Guy de Maupassant. Date of composition unknown, but most likely 1891. Probably written...
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Le Chabanais (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a frequent visitor; he painted 16 tableaux for the house, now held in private collections. The author Guy de Maupassant built...
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"Small Ball", is a short story by the late-19th-century French writer Guy de Maupassant, first published on 15/16 April 1880. It is arguably his most famous...
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galantes Clair de Lune, an 1884 short story collection by Guy de Maupassant Clair de lune, a 1921 play by Blanche Oelrichs, filmed in 1932 Claire de Lune, a...
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of a Madman" (French: "Un Fou") is a short story by French author Guy de Maupassant, published in 1885. The short story was first published in the newspaper...
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devotion to his style and aesthetics. The celebrated short story writer Guy de Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert. Flaubert was born in Rouen, in the Seine-Maritime...
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The Piece of String (category Short stories by Guy de Maupassant)
"The Piece of String" (French: La Ficelle) is an 1883 short story by Guy de Maupassant. It is included in the short story collection "Miss Harriet". On market...
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(adaptation of a story by Guy de Maupassant) ("Франсуаза", 1891) "The Coffee-House of Surat" (adaptation of a story by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre) ("Суратская...
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Bertrand published "L'heure du Sabbat" ("The Hour of the Sabbat"). Guy de Maupassant made his debut with "La main d'écorché" ("The Flayed Hand") (1875)...
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The Necklace (category Short stories by Guy de Maupassant)
story by French writer Guy de Maupassant. It is known for its twist ending (ironic ending), which was a hallmark of de Maupassant's style. The story was...
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important figures of the arts, such as William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Gounod and Jules Massenet. A petition called "Artists against...
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Jean-Daniel Pollet and based on the short story of the same name by Guy de Maupassant. "The HORLA (1968)". bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on August...
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by the white, endless wall of the cliff. Guy de Maupassant admirably describes the rural feeling of the Pays de Caux in his novels. For example: drawn from...
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and Ernest Daudet. Among its many famous contributing editors was Guy de Maupassant. Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera was first published...
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Bel-Ami (category Novels by Guy de Maupassant)
Bel-Ami ([bɛlami], "Dear Friend") is the second novel by French author Guy de Maupassant, published in 1885; an English translation titled Bel Ami, or, The...
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One Life (1958 film) (category Films based on works by Guy de Maupassant)
background and a cynical man. The film is based on the novel Une Vie by Guy de Maupassant. It was shown in competition at the 19th Venice International Film...
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that by God! And I have the greatest contempt for the bourgeois." (Guy de Maupassant, Letter to Robert Pinchon aka LaToque, 2 March 1877.) V.M Domiteeva...
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19th century in literature (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
Benito Pérez Galdós, Nikolai Leskov, Guy de Maupassant, Anton Chekhov, José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, Machado de Assis, Bolesław Prus and, in a sense,...
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ordinary life. Narayan's short stories have been compared with those of Guy de Maupassant because of his ability to compress a narrative. In a career that spanned...
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"La Serre" (Guy de Maupassant - Harry Kumel) "Une villa à la campagne" (Anton Chekhov - Maurice Fasquel) "Le Demi-mariage ou Le triomphe de la vertu" (Nicolas...
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A Vendetta (category Short stories by Guy de Maupassant)
writer Guy de Maupassant (1799-1893), first published in 1824 in the newspaper Le Gaulois, and included in his 1885 collection Contes du jour et de la nuit [fr]...
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de Assis was an important short story writer from Brazil at the time, under the influences of Xavier de Maistre, Laurence Sterne, Guy de Maupassant,...
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singer-songwriter Guy Consolmagno (born 1952), American Jesuit brother and astronomer Guy de Maupassant (1850–1893), French writer and journalist Guy de Rothschild...
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Bel Ami is a novel by Guy de Maupassant. Bel Ami may also refer to: Bel Ami (1939 film), a film adaptation of the novel Bel Ami (1955 film), a film adaptation...
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The Port (short story) (redirect from The Port (by Guy de Maupassant))
short story by Guy de Maupassant written in 1889 and translated by Leo Tolstoy into Russian in 1891 as Françoise: A Story After Maupassant ("Франсуаза")...
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Miou-Miou (category Café de la Gare)
Through the 1980s she was in such films as La gueule du loup (1981), Guy de Maupassant (1982), Diane Kurys's Entre nous (1983) with Isabelle Huppert, Blanche...
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Guide to Stephen King" Collings, Michael R. Starmount House 1986 "Guy de Maupassant Biography". Classiclit.about.com. 2011-06-14. Archived from the original...
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A Parisian Affair (category Short stories by Guy de Maupassant)
Parisian Affair (French: Une aventure parisienne) is a short story by Guy de Maupassant, first published in French in 1881, and published in English as a...
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