Essay Archive - Biography on Guy de Maupassant
Biography on Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant was born on August 5, 1850 at Chateau de Miromesnil in
France. He was a descendent of a very old French family. As a boy, Maupassant
went to school at Yvetot in Normandy, and then attended Lycee at Rouen. During
his childhood and youth in Normandy, he picked up a great deal of experiences
that he later put to use in many of his writings. When Maupassant was eleven
years old, his parents got separated. This was probably the most significant
events in his life in that his mother retained custody of him. His mother was
the sister of a close friend of Flaubert, one ....
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