This author of "Ball of Fat" also wrote a story in which Mathilde and her husband spend ten years in debt attempting to replace an item lost at a ball that is eventually revealed to have been a fake.
In one work by this author, an inheritance reveals that the younger son of Madame Roland is illegitimate. In another work by this author of "Pierre and Jean," the democrat Cornudet is the last to give up his opposition to a proposal made that Elisabeth, who provided her companions with food in their coach, sleep with a Prussian commandant in order to guarantee their passage. This author of "Ball of Fat" also wrote a story in which Mathilde and her husband spend ten years in debt attempting to replace an item lost at a ball that is eventually revealed to have been a fake. For 10 points, name this French author of short stories such as "The Necklace."
In one work by this author, an inheritance reveals that the younger son of Madame Roland is illegitimate.
Henry-Rene-Albert Guy de Maupassant