Maupassant

American  

[moh-puh-sahnt, moh-pa-sahn] / ˈmoʊ pəˌsɑnt, moʊ paˈsɑ̃ /

noun

1. (Henri René Albert) Guy de 1850–93, French short-story writer and novelist.

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Maupassant British  

/ mopɑsɑ̃ /

noun

1. ( Henri René Albert ) Guy de (ɡi də). 1850–93, French writer, noted esp for his short stories, such as Boule de suif (1880), La Maison Tellier (1881), and Mademoiselle Fifi (1883). His novels include Bel Ami (1885) and Pierre et Jean (1888)

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Example Sentences

Maupassant hated the tower so much that, almost every day, he ate his lunch in the restaurant at the foot of the tower.

From Los Angeles Times

I love Normandy, only two hours from Paris — a land of great authors, such as Gustave Flaubert and Guy de Maupassant.

From New York Times

I had assumed, ignorantly, that I didn’t have to read him, such was Zola’s reputation as an artist inferior to Flaubert and Maupassant.

From New York Times

And is not Guy de Maupassant out of place in the early seventies?

From New York Times

Besides rereading Marcel Proust, he’s recently read Gustave Flaubert’s novel “Sentimental Education,” George Eliot’s novel “Middlemarch” and stories by Guy de Maupassant.

From Los Angeles Times