Guy de Maupassant (Author)
Guy de Maupassant was born in Normandy in 1850. In addition to his
six novels, which include Bel-Ami (1885) and Pierre et Jean (1888),
he wrote hundreds of short stories, the most famous of which is
'Boule de suif'. By the late 1870s, he began to develop the first
signs of syphilis, and in 1891 he was committed to an asylum in
Paris, having tried to commit suicide. He died there two years
later.
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