Guy de Maupassant

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Guy de Maupassant was a 19th-century French writer renowned for his masterful short stories and realist novels depicting everyday life and human psychology.

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instanceOf French realist author
human
journalist
novelist
short story writer
writer
birthName Guy de Maupassant self-linksurface differs
surface form: Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant
burialPlace Montparnasse Cemetery
surface form: Cimetière de Montparnasse
causeOfDeath syphilis-related illness
citizenship France
countryOfBirth France
countryOfDeath France
dateOfBirth 1850-08-05
dateOfDeath 1893-07-06
education Lycée Pierre-Corneille
employer French Ministry of Marine
Ministry of National Education of France
surface form: French Ministry of Public Instruction
familyName Guy de Maupassant self-linksurface differs
surface form: de Maupassant
genre naturalist fiction
novel
realist fiction
short story
givenName Albert
Guy
Henri
René
influencedBy Gustave Flaubert
Honoré de Balzac
Émile Zola
language French
mentor Gustave Flaubert
militaryService Franco-Prussian War
movement Naturalism
Realism
name Guy de Maupassant self-link
nationality French
notableWork Bel-Ami
Boule de Suif
Contes de la bécasse
Fort comme la mort
La Parure
Le Horla
Mont-Oriol
Notre cœur
Pierre et Jean
Une vie
numberOfNovels 6
numberOfShortStories approximately 300
occupation civil servant
journalist
writer
placeOfBirth Château de Miromesnil
Tourville-sur-Arques
placeOfDeath Paris
style concise prose
ironic tone
psychological realism
workedFor Le Figaro
Le Gaulois
newspaper Gil Blas

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Montparnasse Cemetery burialPlaceOf Guy de Maupassant
Guy notableBearer Guy de Maupassant
Gustave Flaubert influenced Guy de Maupassant
E. T. A. Hoffmann influenced Guy de Maupassant
W. Somerset Maugham influencedBy Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant name Guy de Maupassant self-link
Guy de Maupassant birthName Guy de Maupassant self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant familyName Guy de Maupassant self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: de Maupassant
Isaac Babel notableWork Guy de Maupassant
Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris (grave later lost) burialPlaceOf Guy de Maupassant
subject surface form: Montparnasse Cemetery
Le Gaulois notableContributor Guy de Maupassant
Naturalism hasKeyFigure Guy de Maupassant
subject surface form: Naturalism (literature)