Happy Birthday Guy de Maupassant! Born #OTD 1850. Author of over 300 brilliant short stories, 6 novels, 3 travel books, some shit poetry, a smutty play - all in about 10 years. Died from syphilis age 43.
Here's the bar named after him in Étretat, Normandy.
He's buried in Montparnasse Cemetery.
4 months ago