Biography On Guy De Maupassant
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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 o ....
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.... interest at the time for a
career of writing for himself. As an adolescent he was much more interested in
sports than writing, especially rowing.
Maupassants education was interrupted by the Franco-Prussian War, in
which he served as a member of the French army. After the war was finished, he
entered the French civil service. He first served with the Ministry of Navy and
later with the Ministry of Public Institution. During the between 1873 and 1880
he also served as a literary apprent ....
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