Give the name of the French author who wrote the short story - The Necklace?

Henri Ren茅 Albert Guy de Maupassant (IPA: 伞id蓹mopas虄蓱) (5 August 1850 鈥?6 July 1893) was a popular 19th-century French writer. He is one of the fathers of the modern short story.





Maupassant is one of the fathers of the modern short story. Unlike the more psychologically oriented Turgenev and Chekhov, Maupassant delights in clever plotting, and served as a model for Somerset Maugham and O. Henry in this respect. His stories about real or fake jewels (The Necklace, 'Les bijoux') are imitated with a twist by Maugham ('Mr Know-All', 'A String of Beads') and Henry James ('Paste'). As a stylish writer with a huge popular appeal he may be compared to Georges Simenon.





The Necklace, in fact, viciously punishes its lead characters for their needless guilt and dishonesty, signs of vanity, in a very heavy-handed way. Here is how it ends, with the protagonist encountering, after a decade of slaving to repay her debt for the diamond necklace she lost, the woman who owned the necklace:








One Sunday, as she had gone for a walk along the Champs-Elysees to freshen herself after the labors of the week, she caught sight suddenly of a woman who was taking a child out for a walk. It was Madame Forestier, still young, still beautiful, still attractive.


Madame Loisel was conscious of some emotion. Should she speak to her? Yes, certainly. And now that she had paid, she would tell her all. Why not?


She went up to her.


鈥楪ood morning, Jeanne.鈥?br>

The other did not recognize her, and was surprised at being thus familiarly addressed by a poor woman.


鈥楤ut...Madame...鈥?she stammered. 鈥業 don鈥檛 know...you must be making a mistake.鈥?br>

鈥楴o...I am Mathilde Loisel.鈥?br>

Her friend uttered a cry.


鈥極h!...my poor Mathilde, how you have changed!...鈥?br>

鈥榊es, I鈥檝e had some hard times since I saw you last; and many sorrows...and all on your account.鈥?br>

鈥極n my account!...How was that?鈥?br>

鈥榊ou remember the diamond necklace you lent me for the ball at the Ministry?鈥?br>

鈥榊es. Well?鈥?br>

鈥榃ell, I lost it.鈥?br>

鈥楬ow could you? Why, you brought it back.鈥?br>

鈥業 brought you another one just like it. And for the last ten years we have been paying for it. You realize it wasn鈥檛 easy for us; we had no money....Well, it鈥檚 paid for at last, and I鈥檓 glad indeed.鈥?br>

Madame Forestier had halted.


鈥榊ou say you bought a diamond necklace to replace mine?鈥?br>

鈥榊es. You hadn鈥檛 noticed it? They were very much alike.鈥?br>

And she smiled in proud and innocent happiness. Madame Forestier, deeply moved, took her two hands.


鈥極h, my poor Mathilde! But mine was imitation. It was worth at the very most five hundred francs!鈥?br>




Such coincidences do occur in life, and taken as an isolated tale it does not matter, but Maupassant鈥檚 tales, like those of O. Henry, are best read in small bunches, as this collection has, where the stock manipulations do not get repetitive as a hammer. Read Maupassant, and check out the Dover Books website, but realize the former works best as a curio of a lost time, and not a thing of the now.

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