Beautiful Friend

Author: (French) Guy de Maupassant
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: Guy de Maupassant (1850–1893) was a famous French writer. The Beautiful Lady is his representative long, published in May 1885, which caused a sensation and was reprinted more than thirty times within a few months. Duval, a junior officer of the French colonial army in Algeria, comes to Paris and is introduced by a friend to become an editor for La Vie Fran?aise. He relies on his handsome appearance and his charm with women to seduce women from the upper class, using this as a stepping stone to rise to prominence. Later, he abducts the daughter of the newspaper owner and forces the owner to marry her, becoming the editor-in-chief of the newspaper. The novel also hints at the end that he is about to become a senator and a minister of the cabinet, with a promising future ahead.