maupassant in A Sentence

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Guy de Maupassant.

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Flaubert's sudden and unexpected death in 1880 was a grievous blow to Maupassant.

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The decade from 1880 to 1891 was the most fertile period of Maupassant's life.

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The supernatural in Maupassant, however, is often implicitly a symptom of the protagonists' troubled minds;

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Maupassant was fascinated by the burgeoning discipline of psychiatry, and attended the public lectures of Jean-Martin Charcot between 1885 and 1886.

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Maupassant also wrote under several pseudonyms such as Joseph Prunier, Guy de Valmont, and Maufrigneuse(which he used from 1881 to 1885).

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When Maupassant was 11 and his brother Hervé was five, his mother, an independent-minded woman, risked social disgrace to obtain a legal separation from her husband.

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When Maupassant was eleven and his brother Hervé was five, his mother, an independent-minded woman, risked social disgrace to obtain a legal separation from her husband.

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Whenever Flaubert was staying in Paris, he used to invite Maupassant to lunch on Sundays, lecture him on prose style, and correct his youthful literary exercises.

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When Maupassant was 11 and his brother Hervé was five, his mother, an independent-minded woman, risked social disgrace to obtain a legal separation from her husband, violent towards her.

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When Maupassant was 11 and his brother Hervé was five, his mother, an independent-minded woman, risked social disgrace to obtain a legal separation from her husband, who was violent towards her.

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With the father's absence, Maupassant's mother became the most influential figure in the young boy's life.[3] She was an exceptionally well-read woman and was very fond of classical literature, particularly Shakespeare.

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Maupassant's mother, Laure, was the sister of Alfred Le Poittevin, who had been a close friend of Gustave Flaubert, and she herself remained on affectionate terms with the novelist for the rest of his life.

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Despite this, many Parisians believed it to be an eyesore, including famed writers Alexandre Dumas(who called it a“loathsome construction”) and Guy de Maupassant(“What will be thought of our generation if we do not smash this lanky pyramid.”).

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Gene Roddenberry, in an early draft for The Questor Tapes, wrote a scene in which the android Questor employs Maupassant's theory that,"the human female will open her mind to a man to whom she has opened other channels of communications.".

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Apart from that, Guy de Maupassant also spent many years of his childhood in the town of Étretat, even writing a short story entitled"The Englishman of Étretat", as well as building a Mediterranean house of his own in the area, naming it"La Guillette".

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