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- Birth nameHenry-René-Albert-Guy de Maupassant
- Guy de Maupassant was born on August 5, 1850 in Château de Miromesnil, France. He was a writer, known for Geni e o Zepelim, La criada de la granja (1953) and Black Sabbath (1963). He died on July 6, 1893 in Paris, France.
- Popular French short story writer and novelist, often concerned with the effects of war on ordinary people. Best known for "Boule de Suif" and "Bel Ami". He was a protégé of Gustave Flaubert.
- The girl was one of those pretty and charming young creatures who sometimes are born, as if by a slip of fate, into a family of clerks.
- Life is composed of the most dissimilar things, the most unforeseen, the most contradictory, the most incongruous. It is merciless, without sequence or connection, full of inexplicable, illogical and contradictory consequences, such as can only be classed as miscellaneous facts.
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