Henry-René-Albert-Guy de Maupassant is a French writer and literary journalist born August 5, 1850 at the Château de Miromesnil in Tourville-sur-Arques, (in Seine-Inférieure) and died July 6, 1893 in Paris.
Maupassant spent his childhood in Normandy where he met Flaubert, a family friend, who became his spiritual master.
After the war of 1870, whose ordeal of horror retains a central place in his work, Maupassant rubs shoulders with his friend Flaubert in the Parisian literary salons.
His first publication, 'Boule de suif', was a success....