Maupassant
GUY DE (mō-päsong'), a French novelist; born in the Château Miromesnil, Seine-Inférieure, France, Aug. 5, 1850. He was for some time clerk at the navy department, Paris. He published over 20 volumes, among them the collections of short stories, "The Sisters of Rondoli" (1884); "Tales of Day and Night" (1885); "The Left Hand" (1889); the novels "Peter and John" (1888); "Strong as Death" (1889); "Our (1893); the books of travel "In the Sunshine" (1884); "On the Water" (1888). "A Wandering Life" (1890).
Unsettled by the insanity and death of a brother, he himself died in an asylum in Paris, July 6, 1893.