Jean Lorrain
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Jean Lorrain, born Paul Alexandre Martin Duval, was a French poet and novelist of the Symbolist school.
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Jean Lorrain, as caricatured by Sem (Georges Goursat, 1863–1934)
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
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…known as "The Ambassador from Sodom". Due to tubercular symptoms, he started using morphine, and then moved on to drinking ether, a habit he shared with Guy de Maupassant. Under the influence of ether Lorrain wrote several horror stories, but eventually the substance gave him stomach ulcers and health problems. Le Sang…
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