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Young, attractive and very ambitious, George Duroy, known to his friends as Bel-Ami, is offered a job as a journalist on La Vie francaise and soon makes a great success of his new career. But he also comes face to face with the realities of the corrupt society in which he lives... Read Full Overview

Maupassant's second novel, Bel-Ami (1885) is the story of a ruthlessly ambitious young man (Georges Duroy, christened "Bel-Ami" by his female admirers) making it to the top in fin-de-sihcle Paris. It is a novel about money, sex, and power, set against the background of the politics... Read Full Overview

Bel-Ami est un roman r aliste de Guy de Maupassant publi en 1885 sous forme de feuilleton dans Gil Blas et dont l'action se d roule Paris au xixe si cle, en pleine R volution industrielle. Ce roman retrace l'ascension sociale de Georges Duroy, homme ambitieux et s ducteur... Read Full Overview

Young, attractive and very ambitious, George Duroy, known to his friends as Bel-Ami, is offered a job as a journalist on La Vie francaise and soon makes a great success of his new career. But he also comes face to face with the realities of the corrupt society in which he lives... Read Full Overview

Henri Ren Albert Guy de Maupassant was a French writer, remembered as a master of the short story form, and as a representative of the naturalist school of writers, who depicted human lives and destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms.

Henry-Ren -Albert-Guy de Maupassant est un crivain et journaliste litt raire fran ais n le 5 ao t 1850 au ch teau de Miromesnil Tourville-sur-Arques (Seine-Inf rieure) et mort le 6 juillet 1893 Paris.Li Gustave Flaubert et mile Zola, Maupassant a marqu la litt rature... Read Full Overview

Henry-Ren -Albert-Guy de Maupassant est un crivain et journaliste litt raire fran ais n le 5 ao t 1850 au ch teau de Miromesnil Tourville-sur-Arques (Seine-Inf rieure) et mort le 6 juillet 1893 Paris. Li Gustave Flaubert et mile Zola, Guy de Maupassant a marqu la... Read Full Overview

Guy de Maupassant, one of the 19th century's most admired French writers, is considered to be one of the fathers of the modern short story. Maupassant's stories are characterized by their wealth of style, clever plotting and effortless resolutions. Many of his stories are...

Le roman retrace l'ascension sociale de Georges Duroy (ou Georges Du Roy de Cantel), homme ambitieux et s ducteur sans scrupules (arriviste et opportuniste), employ au bureau des chemins de fer du Nord, parvenu au sommet de la pyramide sociale parisienne gr ce ses ma tresses... Read Full Overview

Maupassant's second novel, Bel-Ami (1885) is the story of a ruthlessly ambitious young man (Georges Duroy, christened "Bel-Ami" by his female admirers) making it to the top in fin-de-sihcle Paris. It is a novel about money, sex, and power, set against the background of the politics... Read Full Overview