Conteur r‚aliste, il peint la soci‚t‚ de son temps d'une fa‡on cruelle et color‚e. Ecrivain pessimiste, il sait trŠs bien rendre les hantises et les cauchemars de la vie int‚rieure Maupassant spends his early year at the sea-side, in Normandy, France, amidst fishermen's kids, dreaming of the beautiful sailing yachts of the Bay of Fecamp, a picture that will follow him all his life. His family life was extreme, cherished by his immoderate and neuropath mother and despising his characterless father. Maupassant was a handsome man, loving women immoderatedly, which caused him to catch syphilis.