Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) was born into an upper bourgeois (middle-class) family in Normandy, France. After serving in the army, without enough money to continue his law studies, he became a civil servant, working in various ministries in Paris. At the same time, be studied writing with the author Gustave Flaubert. The extraordinary success of his art between 1880 and 1890, Maupassant published nearly three hundred stories. He also wrote essays, plays, poetry, and novels, including Pierre et Jean (1888). His work has influenced countless numbers of writers around the world, including Anton Chekhov and Kate Chopin.
