For 10 points, name this French author of "Boule de Suif" and "The Necklace".
In one story by this author, a character shoots out the eyes of the portrait of a woman, upon which he has already drawn a mustache. In another story by this author, a merchant makes a joke about eating a woman out of hunger, as sailors do, but is surprised when that woman offers him a piece of jellied chicken. One of his characters is stabbed through the neck with a cheese knife by a Jewish girl named Rachel. In a story by him, (*) Count de Breville persuades the title prostitute to sleep with a Prussian officer to allow a carriage to continue on to Le Havre. In the ending of the most famous story by this author of "Mademoiselle Fifi", it is revealed that the jewelry Mathilde borrowed and lost was fake. For 10 points, name this French author of "Boule de Suif" and "The Necklace".
In one story by this author, a character shoots out the eyes of the portrait of a woman, upon which he has already drawn a mustache.
Guy de Maupassant