Guy de Maupassant was born on August 5, 1850 and died on July 6, 1893. Guy de Maupassant would have been 42 years old at the time of death or 161 years old today.
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French author, "father of the modern short story" (Guy is pronounced "Gee", with a hard "g"). his contemporaries and friends included Flaubert, Swinburne, Zola and Turgenev; his greatest work is...