Maupassant

[ moh-puh-sahnt; French moh-pa-sahn ]

noun

1. (Hen·ri Re·né Al·bert) Guy de [ah, n, -, ree, , r, uh, -, ney, , a, l-, ber, gee d, uh], 1850–93, French short-story writer and novelist.

Maupassant

/ mopɑsɑ̃ /

noun

1. Maupassant(Henri René Albert) Guy de18501893MFrenchWRITING: novelistWRITING: short-story writer ( Henri René Albert ) Guy de (ɡi də). 1850–93, French writer, noted esp for his short stories, such as Boule de suif (1880), La Maison Tellier (1881), and Mademoiselle Fifi (1883). His novels include Bel Ami (1885) and Pierre et Jean (1888)

Example Sentences

Peretz and Sholem Asch — as well as science and history texts, translations of classics like Shakespeare and Guy de Maupassant, even cookbooks and sex manuals — were being consigned to dumpsters, attics and cellars.

From New York Times

I love Normandy, only two hours from Paris — a land of great authors, such as Gustave Flaubert and Guy de Maupassant.

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I had assumed, ignorantly, that I didn’t have to read him, such was Zola’s reputation as an artist inferior to Flaubert and Maupassant.

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I suppose Mrs. Wharton knows her Maupassant thoroughly; but unless I am quite at fault, it was not in the early seventies, but in the early eighties, that his tales began to appear.

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Besides rereading Marcel Proust, he’s recently read Gustave Flaubert’s novel “Sentimental Education,” George Eliot’s novel “Middlemarch” and stories by Guy de Maupassant.

From Los Angeles Times