Guy de Maupassant isn t too hard to read. His characters are well developed and his stories are interesting enough, but I found a lot of them to be realistic to the point of being cynical and depressing. And say what you will, the man did not like Prussians or other Germans, for that matter. Not surprising, I suppose, after France got its clock cleaned in the Franco-Prussian War, lost Alsace-Lorraine, and was required to pay huge reparations.
And for history buffs, French resentment over huge reparations led to huge reparations being imposed on Germany after World War I, which led to German resentment, which led to you know what.
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