France: Guy de Maupassant (1850 - 1893), portrait by Nadar (Gaspard-Felix Tournachon, 1820 - 1910), 1888

Henri Rene Albert Guy de Maupassant (5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a French writer, remembered as a master of the short story form, and as a representative of the naturalist school of writers, who depicted human lives and destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms.

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