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Guy de Maupassant
French author Guy de Maupassant, photograph by Nadar (Gaspard-FĂ©lix Tournachon), c. 1885.
During his apprenticeship, Gustave Flaubert introduced Guy de Maupassant to several prominent literary figures of the era, including:
Flaubert, who mentored Maupassant by correcting his literary exercises and lecturing him on prose style, regarded the younger writer as his disciple.1