3432118 France: Guy de Maupassant (1850 - 1893), portrait by Nadar (Gaspard-Felix Tournachon, 1820 - 1910), 1888 by Nadar, (Gaspard Felix Tournachon) (1820-1910); (add.info.: Henri Rene Albert Guy de Maupassant (5 August 1850 ? 6 July 1893) 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.); Pictures from History; French, out of copyright.