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1850–1893
A master of the short story, he captured human desire, vanity, and disappointment with sharp observation and remarkable economy. His enduring works include Boule de Suif, The Necklace, Bel-Ami, and A Life.

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Born in Normandy in 1850, he became one of 19th-century France’s most celebrated writers. His fiction is associated with realism and naturalism, portraying ordinary lives, social pressures, and human weaknesses with a clear-eyed, often dark sense of irony.
A protégé of Gustave Flaubert, Maupassant developed a concise, polished style known for vivid detail and powerful endings. He wrote nearly 300 short stories as well as novels, poetry, and journalism before his death in Paris in 1893.