text: This author described an affable soldier with "very flat and very fat" feet marching through Normandy in "Walter Schnaffs' Adventure."
full_question: This author described an affable soldier with "very flat and very fat" feet marching through Normandy in "Walter Schnaffs' Adventure." A woman created by this author is noted for her "embonpoint" and has fingers "choked at the phalanges." A weak-willed man in a story by this man sleeps in a coat room while his wife dances at the Ministry of Education's ball. Morissot and Sauvage refuse to reveal a password and are shot by the (*) Prussians in his story "Deux Amis". The title prostitute of one of his stories, Elisabeth Rousset, helps her company by sleeping with a Prussian officer. In another of his stories, Madame Loisel borrows a piece of jewelry that turns out to be fake in another of his stories. For 10 points, name this author of "Ball of Fat" and "The Necklace."
first_sentence: This author described an affable soldier with "very flat and very fat" feet marching through Normandy in "Walter Schnaffs' Adventure."
raw_answer: Guy de Maupassant [or Henri Rene Albert Guy de Maupassant] 