“She was one of those pretty and charming girls born, as though fate had blundered over her, into a family of artisans.”

About Guy de Maupassant

Author • French

Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a 19th-century French author, remembered as a master of the short story form. A protégé of Gustave Flaubert, his stories are characterized by their economy of style and efficient,...