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 of ....
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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 apprentic ....
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