The author of "Good Friend", "A Life" and "The Horla" was a veritable comet. In twelve years Guy de Maupassant wrote six novels, seven plays, some three hundred novellas and thousands of articles... before dying in 1893, aged 42. A look back at the life and career of an anticonformist.
With Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Sylvain Tesson, Pierre Bayard, Olivier Frébourg, Noëlle Benhamou and Martine Reid.
Narrated by: François Busnel.
Directed by: Catherine Aventurier (France, 2024)