Selected Stories, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)
Maupassant, Guy de Excerpt from Selected Stories, Vol. 1
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was born in France, August 5, 1850, at the Château de Miromesnil, Department of the Lower Seine. He was educated chiefly at the Rouen Lycée, and later was employed about fifteen years in the Admiralty Office in Paris. He became a friend and disciple of Gustave Flaubert, with whom he was connected by marriage. That great stylist encouraged his brilliant pupil to write, a...