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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 2,742,887 page views. His biography is available in 98 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 94 in 2019). Guy de Maupassant is the 130th most popular writer (down from 81st in 2019), the 155th most popular biography from France (down from 79th in 2019) and the 31st most popular French Writer.

Guy de Maupassant is most famous for his short stories.

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  • 5.74

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Guy de Maupassant ranks 130 out of 5,755. Before him are Jean Cocteau, Apuleius, H. P. Lovecraft, Robert Louis Stevenson, Haruki Murakami, and Walter Scott. After him are August Strindberg, Carlo Collodi, Günter Grass, Charles Baudelaire, Rudyard Kipling, and Charlotte Brontë.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, Guy de Maupassant ranks 3. Before him are Jack the Ripper and Robert Louis Stevenson. After him are Karl Ferdinand Braun, Edward Smith, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Eduard Bernstein, Sofia Kovalevskaya, Hermann Ebbinghaus, Charles Richet, Mihai Eminescu, and Pierre Loti. Among people deceased in 1893, Guy de Maupassant ranks 2. Before him is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. After him are Charles Gounod, Patrice de MacMahon, Hippolyte Taine, Jean-Martin Charcot, Rutherford B. Hayes, Alexander of Battenberg, Jan Matejko, Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Josef Stefan, and Jules Ferry.

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In France

Among people born in France, Guy de Maupassant ranks 155 out of 6,011. Before him are Jean Bodin (1530), Christian Dior (1905), Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754), Évariste Galois (1811), Pope Sylvester II (938), and Jean-François Millet (1814). After him are Jacques Cousteau (1910), Erik Satie (1866), Charles IX of France (1550), Charles Baudelaire (1821), Francis II of France (1544), and Jacques Cartier (1491).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Guy de Maupassant ranks 31. Before him are François Rabelais (1494), François Villon (1431), Sully Prudhomme (1839), Paul Verlaine (1844), Alexandre Dumas fils (1824), and Jean Cocteau (1889). After him are Charles Baudelaire (1821), André Breton (1896), Jean Racine (1639), Petronius (27), François-René de Chateaubriand (1768), and Stéphane Mallarmé (1842).

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