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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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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"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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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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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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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 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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"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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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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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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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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greatest contempt for the bourgeois." (Guy de Maupassant, Letter to Robert Pinchon aka LaToque, 2 March 1877.) "Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec Biography"....
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Katha Sagar (category Adaptations of works by Guy de Maupassant)
by writers from around the world, including Katherine Mansfield, Guy de Maupassant, Leo Tolstoy, O. Henry, and Anton Chekhov. Each episode was directed...
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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 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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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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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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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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Mademoiselle Fifi (short story) (category Short stories by Guy de Maupassant)
French writer Guy de Maupassant, published in 1882 in a collection of the same title. Like many of his short stories, such as Boule de Suif and Deux Amis...
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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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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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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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created by the writer Maurice Leblanc. The museum is located at 15, rue Guy-de-Maupassant in Étretat, in the former home of Maurice Leblanc. It opened to the...
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Madame and Her Niece (category Films based on works by Guy de Maupassant)
Schröder [de] and starring Ruth-Maria Kubitschek, Edwige Fenech and Fred Williams. It is an adaptation of the 1884 short story Yvette by Guy de Maupassant updated...
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Two Friends (short story) (category Short stories by Guy de Maupassant)
"Deux amis" or "Two Friends" is a short story by the French author Guy de Maupassant, published in 1882. The story is set in Paris during the Franco-Prussian...
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