During further schooling in Rouen, 1868–1869, he was mentored by the great local novelist and story writer Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880), a friend of his mother’s family, who was to remain a foremost influence on, and furtherer of, his writing career, as well as an older boon companion sharing his delight in pornography (there was even a canard abroad that Flaubert was his real father). By 1860 their parents, who were of bourgeois Rouen stock, separated, after much squabbling painfully witnessed by young Guy, and the boys were raised in Normandy by their mother, an intellectual, but flighty, protective, shallow, and snobbish woman who was to dominate them all their lives (Guy never married, and even as an adult was to live with his mother for long periods).Īfter the unbounded rural freedom of his earlier years, Guy felt confined in his lycée in Paris, 1859–1860, and his parochial school at Yvetot, 1863–1868, from which he got himself expelled. His younger brother Hervé was born in 1856. There is no doubt that Henry-René-Albert-Guy de Maupassant (the de of nobility having been adopted by his father on a vague historical basis) was born in Normandy in 1850, but it is now generally believed that it was not, as his mother always claimed, in the Château de Miromesnil, near Dieppe (which had merely been rented for the occasion), but in the town of Fécamp, where she went into labor unexpectedly. Maupassant’s secretive nature, and the lies fostered by his parents, as both resolute social climbers and protectors of the family’s reputation, have left numerous uncertainties for biographers, beginning with his birthplace. Manufactured in the United States of Americaĭover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y.
International Standard Book Number eISBN 13: 978-6-9 This Dover edition, first published in 2007, includes the original French text of twelve stories first published between 18 (see Introduction for individual periodical and volume publication dates), together with new English translations by Stanley Appelbaum, who also wrote the Introduction and the footnotes. English translations, Introduction, and footnotes copyright © 2007 by Dover Publications, Inc.
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