Guy de Maupassant
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Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a 19th-century French author, celebrated as a master of the short story and associated with the naturalist literary school of thought, depicting human lives, de
Maupassant photographed by Nadar, c. 1888
Guy de Maupassant aged 7 (Unbreeched)
Guy de Maupassant (Breeched) and his mother, Laure
His father, Gustave de Maupassant, by Hippolyte Bellangé
Boule de Suif
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"Boule de Suif", translated variously as "Dumpling", "Butterball", "Ball of Fat", "Ball of Lard", or "Small Ball", is a short story by the late-19th-century French writer Guy de Maupassant, first publ
Guy de Maupassant
…permanently changed by their experiences. He wrote 300 short stories, six novels, three travel books, and one volume of verse. His first published story, "Boule de Suif" ("The Dumpling", 1880), is often considered his most famous work. Henri-René-Albert-Guy de Maupassant was born on 5 August 1850 at the late 16th-century…
Cover of an edition of "Boule de Suif"