Maupassant

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

/ ˈmoʊ pəˌsɑnt; French moʊ paˈsɑ̃ /

noun

(Hen·ri Re·né Al·bert) Guy de

[ahn-ree ruh-ney al-ber gee duh] /ɑ̃ˈri rəˈneɪ alˈbɛr gi də/,1850–93, French short-story writer and novelist.

Example sentences from the Web for maupassant

They characterize the Norman of those times as faithfully as do the romances of Flaubert and the contes of Maupassant to-day.

Rambles in Normandy |Francis Miltoun
Maupassant, Mr. Tate said, was the great master of the short story.

Turns about Town |Robert Cortes Holliday
Properly speaking, Maupassant is no more a realist than Maeterlinck.

The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 (of 8) |Guy de Maupassant
From her first story she was a realist, as enamoured of actuality and as restrained as Maupassant.

A History of American Literature Since 1870 |Fred Lewis Pattee

Maupassant uses it as the background for several of the chapters of his novel Notre Coeur .

Devil Stories |Various

British Dictionary definitions for maupassant

Maupassant

/ (French mopɑsɑ̃) /

noun

(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)

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