#9: Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant had the compact, muscular, sharp-edged charisma of a man who understood both literature and bad decisions. His short stories made him famous, but his scandalous love life helped maintain the legend. He moved through salons, bedrooms, and literary circles with the confidence of someone who could turn an affair into a paragraph before breakfast. Not exactly wholesome. But then again, “wholesome” rarely gets whispered about after dinner.
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