WRITER

Guy de Maupassant

1850 - 1893

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Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (UK: , US: ; French: [ɡi d(ə) mopasɑ̃]; 5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a 19th-century French author, celebrated as a master of the short story, as well as a representative of the naturalist school, depicting human lives, destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms. Maupassant was a protégé of Gustave Flaubert and his stories are characterized by economy of style and efficient, seemingly effortless dénouements. Many are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s, describing the futility of war and the innocent civilians who, caught up in events beyond their control, are permanently changed by their experiences. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Guy de Maupassant has received more than 2,934,066 page views. His biography is available in 102 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 98 in 2019). Guy de Maupassant is the 119th most popular writer (up from 130th in 2019), the 123rd most popular biography from France (up from 155th in 2019) and the 28th most popular French Writer.

Guy de Maupassant is most famous for his short stories.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Guy de Maupassant ranks 119 out of 7,302. Before him are George Bernard Shaw, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Sully Prudhomme, Federico García Lorca, Anatole France, and Jean Cocteau. After him are Charles Bukowski, Ivo Andrić, Charlotte Brontë, Lewis Carroll, Ahmad ibn Hanbal, and Vladimir Nabokov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, Guy de Maupassant ranks 2. Before him is Jack the Ripper. After him are Robert Louis Stevenson, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Edward Smith, Eduard Bernstein, Sofia Kovalevskaya, Karl Ferdinand Braun, Hermann Ebbinghaus, Charles Richet, Pierre Loti, and Mihai Eminescu. Among people deceased in 1893, Guy de Maupassant ranks 2. Before him is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. After him are Charles Gounod, Jean-Martin Charcot, Patrice de MacMahon, Hippolyte Taine, Alexander of Battenberg, Rutherford B. Hayes, Jan Matejko, Edwin Booth, Josef Stefan, and Jules Ferry.

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In France

Among people born in France, Guy de Maupassant ranks 123 out of 6,770. Before him are Sully Prudhomme (1839), Charles VIII of France (1470), Roman Polanski (1933), Anatole France (1844), Jean Cocteau (1889), and Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (1708). After him are Hugh Capet (940), Charles VI of France (1368), Thérèse of Lisieux (1873), Louis XII of France (1462), Henri Poincaré (1854), and Saint Sebastian (300).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Guy de Maupassant ranks 28. Before him are Marquis de Sade (1740), André Gide (1869), Jean de La Fontaine (1621), Sully Prudhomme (1839), Anatole France (1844), and Jean Cocteau (1889). After him are Paul Verlaine (1844), François Villon (1431), Alexandre Dumas fils (1824), Petronius (27), Jean Racine (1639), and Annie Ernaux (1940).

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