5th August 2017

The Necklace and Other Short Stories - Guy de Maupassant

Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist. 

 

Guy de Maupassant

 

At the age of 18, French writer Guy de Maupassant (born August 5, 1850) saved famed English poet Algernon Charles Swinburne from drowning off the coast of Étretat.