Miss Harriet

Born on August 5, 1850, in the Château de Miromesnil in Normandy, Guy de Maupassant became one of the most celebrated masters of the short story in world literature. Raised in a bourgeois family and deeply marked by the landscapes of Normandy, he developed early a sharp sense of observation and a taste for realism. His mother, a cultivated and independent woman, encouraged his literary ambitions a...