my favorite writer is Guy de Maupassant

How could anyone write so many stories
in such a short life?
He died in his forties.

Henri-René-Albert-Guy de Maupassant
was born 5 August 1850 at the 
Château de Miromesnil (Castle Miromesnil, 
nearDieppe in the Seine-Inférieure 
(nowSeine-Maritime) department in France. 
He was the first son of Laure Le Poittevin
and Gustave de Maupassant, 
both from prosperous bourgeois families.
When Maupassant was 11 and his brother 
Hervé was five, his mother, an independent-minded
 woman, risked social disgrace to obtain a legal separation from her husband.

Good gosh Gertie! That is some house.
Guess what it is now a B&B  

Chateau de Miromesnil

Tourville-sur-Arques

Housed in a 16th-century château, this 
B&B is 1.8 km from the centre of
 Tourville-sur-Arques.

I want to go..    Here are some of his wonderful stories:::

• The Terror -- Abandoned  -- The Adopted Son
• After  -- Alexandre -- All Over
• The Apparition -- The Baroness -- The Beggar
• Bertha  -- Beside Schopenhauer's Corpse
• The Blind Man -- Boule de Suif
• Clair de Lune --- Clochette
• The Colonel's Ideas -- A Coup d'Etat
• A Coward --- The Cripple -- Denis
• The Diamond Necklace
• The Dispenser of Holy Water
• The Donkey -- The Door  -- A Duel
• The Effeminates --- The False Gems
• A Family Affair -- Farewell --- Fascination
• The Father -- Father Milon -- The First Snowfall
• Forgiveness --Found on a Drowned Man
• Friend Joseph -- Friend Patience
• The Gamekeeper --- The Hand---- His Avenger
• The Horrible --- The Impolite Sex
• In the Spring ---- In the Wood
• Indiscretion -- The Inn -- Julie Romaine
• The Kiss -- The Lancer's Wife
• Legend of Mont St. Michel
• The Legion of Honor  --- Lieutenant Lare's Marriage
• Little Louise Roque --- The Log
• The Love of Long Ago  -- Madame Baptiste
• Madame Husson's Rosier  -- Madame Parisse
• Mademoiselle Fifi  --- Mademoiselle Pearl
• The Maison Tellier  * ---The Marquis de Fumerol
• Martine  --- A Meeting  ---- Miss Harriet
• Moiron --- Monsieur Parent ---- Moonlight
• The Moribund --- Mother and Son ---- Mother Sauvage
• The Mustache  --- My Twenty-Five Days
• My Uncle Jules   --- My Uncle Sosthenes
• My Wife ---- A New Year's Gift
• Old Amable  --- Old Mongilet
• On the River   --- The Orphan
• Our Letters -- A Parricide  -- The Patron
• The Piece of String *** ---   The Prisoners
• Queen Hortense ---- A Queer Night in Paris
• The Question of Latin ---- The Rabbit
• A Recollection   --- The Relic --- The Rondoli Sisters
• A Sale  ---  The Story of a Farm Girl
• A Stroll  -- The Test  --  That Costly Ride
• Theodule Sabot's Confession
• The Thief  -- Timbuctoo --- Tombstones
• A Tress of Hair  --- The Trip of the Horla ***
• Two Friends  --- Two Little Soldiers --- The Unknown
• Useless Beauty--- A Vagabond --A Vendetta **
• Waiter,  --- A Wedding Gift  --  The Wolf
• The Wreck   ----  The Wrong House  --
• Yvette Samoris  --  Hautot Senior and Hautot Junior
• No Quarter  --  A Lively Friend
• The Cake   ---  The Corsican Bandit
• The Man with the Pale Eyes  ---  An Uncomfortable Bed
• Ghosts  ---  Fear  ---  The Confession
• The Horla, or Modern Ghosts  --- The Accursed Bread
• An Artifice   ---  At Sea   --  Belhomme's Beast
• Boitelle  --  The Child  ---  The Christening
• Coco  ---  A Country Excursion   ---  A Cremation
• Dead Woman's Secret  ---  The Devil
• The Diary of a Madman                         
• This is a lot of writing
• Discovery -- The Dowry -- Dreams
• The Drunkard -- The Englishman of Etretat
• Epiphany -- A Family
• The Farmer's Wife                                  
• And he died so young
• Father Matthew  - A Father's Confession -- The Fishing Hole
• The Grave  -- A Humble Drama  ---Lasting Love 
• The Little Cask -- Madame Hermet --Mademoiselle Cocotte
• The Magic Couch -- Magnetism--The Mask
• Minuet -- Misti -- The Model
• A Mother of Monsters -- The Mountain Pool
• A Normandy Joke -- Old Judas
• The Parrot -- The Penguin's Rock -- Pierrot
• A Portrait -- Regret -- Rosalie Prudent
• Rose  - Saint Anthony
• Simon's Papa  -  The Snipe -- The Son                    
• Spasm  - Suicides                            
•  Sundays of  Bourgeois - That Pig of a Morin            
• The Umbrella -  The Wardrobe  -  A Widow - The Will

Posted by Yvonne @ La Petite Gallery

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