Guy de maupassant nationality

Guy de Maupassant
Background information
Occupation:	Novelist, short story writer, poet
Genre(s):	Naturalism, Realism
Birthdate:	Aug 5, 1850
Born as:	Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant
Location:	Tourville-sur-Arques, French Second Republic
Date of death:	Jul 6, 1893 - age  43
Death place:	Passy, Paris, French Third Republic
Buried:	Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris

Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (✦5 August 1850 – †6 July 1893) was a French writer, remembered as a master of the short story form, and as a representative of the naturalist school of writers, who depicted human lives and destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms.

Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert and his stories are characterized by economy of style and efficient, effortless dénouements (outcomes). Many are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s, describing the