Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a 19th-century French author, remembered as a master of the short story form, as well as a representative of the Naturalist school, who depicted human lives, destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms.
Jean Charles Emmanuel Nodier was a French author and librarian who introduced a younger generation of Romanticists to the conte fantastique, gothic literature, and vampire tales. His dream related writings influenced the later works of Gérard de Nerval.
French Renaissance literature is, for the purpose of this article, literature written in French from the French invasion of Italy in 1494 to 1600, or roughly the period from the reign of Charles VIII of France to the ascension of Henry IV of France to the throne. The reigns of Francis I and his son Henry II are generally considered the apex of the French Renaissance. After Henry II's unfortunate death in a joust, the country was ruled by his widow Catherine de' Medici and her sons Francis II, Charles IX and Henry III, and although the Renaissance continued to flourish, the French Wars of Religion between Huguenots and Catholics ravaged the country.
Noël du Fail, seigneur de La Hérissaye was a French jurist and writer of the Renaissance. His collections of tales are an important document of rural life in the sixteenth century in Brittany.
"À vendre" is a short story by French author Guy de Maupassant, published in 1885.
Massimilla Doni is a short story by Honoré de Balzac.
Contes cruels is a two-volume set of about 150 tales and short stories by the 19th-century French writer Octave Mirbeau, collected and edited by Pierre Michel and Jean-François Nivet and published in two volumes in 1990 by Librairie Séguier. The title was taken from Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, of whom Mirbeau was a friend and admirer.
"Pierrot" is a short story by French writer Guy de Maupassant. It was originally published on 1 October 1882 in the French newspaper Le Gaulois. A year later, in 1883, it appeared in the short story collection Contes de la bécasse. The story was dedicated to Henry Roujon, novelist and public servant.
"L'Inconnue" is a short story by French author Guy de Maupassant, published in 1885.
"La Maison Tellier" is a short story by Guy de Maupassant published in 1881 in a series of short stories under the same title. Built around a prostitution theme, it is considered one of his best realist short stories, after his renowned Boule de Suif.
"Diary of a Madman" is a short story by French author Guy de Maupassant, published in 1885.
"Imprudence" is a short story by French author Guy de Maupassant, published in 1885.
"Tribunaux rustiques" is a short story by French author Guy de Maupassant, published in 1884.
"Le Baptême" is a short story by the French author Guy de Maupassant. The story was published in 1885.
"La Confidence" is a short story by French author Guy de Maupassant, published in 1885.
"La Bête à Maît' Belhomme" is a short story by French author Guy de Maupassant, published in 1885.
Paul Ginisty was a French writer, columnist and journalist.
Georges Duval was a French journalist and playwright.
"A Vendetta" is a short story by French writer Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), first published in 1883 in the newspaper Le Gaulois, and included in his 1885 collection Contes du jour et de la nuit.
