Miss Harriet and Other Stories (PocketBook)

Guy de Maupassant was born in 1850 at the Chateau de Miromesnil, a seventeenth-century mansion in a magnificent park in Normandy some six miles south of Dieppe; his father had leased the property for a few years, and it was here first, and later at his mother’s house at Etretat, that his son passed his childhood. His parents’ married life was unhappy and the boy saw little of his father. He was educated at the seminary at Yvetor and at the private Institution Leroy-Petit – of which latter school we have a picture in this volume in The Quession of Latin – and then at the Lycee Corneille at Rouen.