One of this writer's novels is about a man who becomes a journalist and then editor after serving in the military in Algeria. At one point, he adds a space in his last name, Duroy. This author's best known character weeps all day from chagrin, regret, despair, and distress until receiving an invitation from the Minister of 
One of this writer's novels is about a man who becomes a journalist and then editor after serving in the military in Algeria. At one point, he adds a space in his last name, Duroy. This author's best known character weeps all day from chagrin, regret, despair, and distress until receiving an invitation from the Minister of Education. She spends four hundred francs on a dress, but that is not enough, so she goes to Madame Forester to borrow the title object and then loses it. Name this French author of the novel Bel-Ami and the short story The Necklace.
One of this writer's novels is about a man who becomes a journalist and then editor after serving in the military in Algeria.
(Guy de) Maupassant