René Dumesnil
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Literary and music critic. Member, Academy of Fine Arts, Institute of France, 1965–67. Author of Gustave Flaubert, l'homme et l'oeuvre; Guy de Maupassant; and others.
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Guy de Maupassant was a French naturalist writer of short stories and novels who is by general agreement the greatest French short-story writer. Maupassant was the elder of the two children of Gustave and Laure de Maupassant. His mother’s claim that he was born at the Château de Miromesnil has been…
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