Biography On Guy De Maupassant

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which he served as a member of the French army. After the war was finished, he
entered the French civil service. He first served with the Ministry of Navy and
later with the Ministry of Public Institution. During the between 1873 and 1880
he also served as a literary apprentice under Flaubert. At this time,
Maupassant realized his weakness as a poet and concentrated on developing his
skills as a writer of prose fiction. Maupassant wrote a collection of short
stories that were published with a writers such as Bola, and Huysmans.
Maupassant work outshone all the others by far. This is Maupassant became
recognized as a writer. He became one of the most famous and well paid French
authors of his time. In the years 1984 through 1985 he produced a great number
of high caliber fiction. Most of these stories dealt with his experiences as a
child in Normandy.
During 1886-1887 Maupassant began to show signs of mental illness,
probably the results of venereal disease. A sea ...

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