"The Marquis de Fumerol" is a short story by Guy de Maupassant. Henri Ren Albert Guy de Maupassant (5 August 1850 - 6 July 1893) was a popular 19th-century French writer, considered one of the fathers of the modern short story and one of the form's finest exponents. A prot g of Flaubert, Maupassant's stories are characterized by their economy of style and efficient, effortless d nouements. Many of the stories are set during the Franco-Prussian War...