Guy de Maupassant

19th century writer Guy de Maupassant is considered one of the fathers of short stories and is one of the most prominent French authors.

After enlisting in the military service during the Franco-Prussian war, Guy de Maupassant started as a civil servant where he had a great deal of time to write. His literary sense was honed by Gustave Flaubert, also a novelist, who had been Maupassant's playmate in his childhood. In 1880, Maupassant started contributing to several newspapers and published almost 300 stories and novels. Bibliophil: Guy de Maupassant - A Parisian Affair and Other Stories (January 7, 2008) He was known for his works Bel-Ami, Pierre and Jean and "The Necklace."

• 1880: Ball of Fat
• 1881: The House of Madame Tellier
• 1882: Mademoiselle Fifi
• 1883: A Woman's Life (Une Vie), novel
• 1884: Miss Harriet
• 1885: Bel-Ami, novel
• 1888: Pierre and Jean, novel

• August 5, 1850: Born in Norman chateau of Miromesnil, Northern France

• 1869: He joins his stockbroker brother in Paris, studies law at the Sorbonne

• 1870: Franco-Prussian War begins and he serves the military

• 1880: Writes Des Vers, and publishes Boule de Suif

• 1881: Publishes La Maison Tellier, reports on the French campaign against Tunisia

• 1883: Publishes his first novel Une Vie

• 1885: Writes Bel-Ami

• 1887: Writes Le Horla

• 1888: Writes Pierre et Jean

• 1891: Maupassant suffers from syphilis

• 1893: Dies on July 6