text: In a story by this author, a firing squad interrupts a fishing trip and kills Morissot and Sauvage for refusing to divulge a secret password.
full_question: In a story by this author, a firing squad interrupts a fishing trip and kills Morissot and Sauvage for refusing to divulge a secret password. In another of his stories, a man dies of delirium after Malandain falsely accuses him of stealing a lost pocketbook. This author of "Two Friends" and "The Piece of String" wrote a story in which Cornudet annoys a carriage's passengers by whistling "La Marseillaise," and whose title character is forced to sleep with a Prussian officer to free them. This man wrote a story in which Madame Loisel lives in poverty after losing a borrowed piece of jewelry. For 10 points, name this French writer of "Ball of Fat" and "The Necklace."
first_sentence: In a story by this author, a firing squad interrupts a fishing trip and kills Morissot and Sauvage for refusing to divulge a secret password.
raw_answer: Guy de Maupassant [or Henri RenÃ© Albert Guy de Maupassant]