Quote of the day
No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Guy de Maupassant
Born: August 5, 1850
Died: July 6, 1893 (aged 42)
Bio: Henri-René-Albert-Guy de Maupassant was a popular 19th-century French writer, one of the fathers of the modern short story.
Known for:
- Bel Ami (1885)
- Boule de Suif (1880)
- The Horla (1887)
- Une vie (1883)
- Pierre et Jean (1888)
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