| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Maupassant, (Henri René Albert) Guy de |
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| SYLLABICATION: | Mau·pas·sant |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  m  p -sänt , m-p -sä |
| DATES: | 1850–1893 |
| French writer whose works, mainly realistic short stories such as “The Necklace,” examine hypocrisy, madness, Parisian society, and peasant life in Normandy.
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