For 10 points, name this author of "The Necklace."
This author wrote about prostitutes crying during Constance's confirmation, and about a lawyer who inherits money from Leon Marechal. Along with "Madame Tellier's Establishment" and Pierre et Jean, he wrote of a title character who makes bombs out of teapots and is stabbed by a prostitute who hides in a bell tower. In another work, a rotund woman sleeps with a Prussian officer. Author of "Mademoiselle Fifi" and "Boule de Suif," he wrote about Mathilde Loisel repaying Madame Forestier for the title object which turns out to be fake. For 10 points, name this author of "The Necklace."
This author wrote about prostitutes crying during Constance's confirmation, and about a lawyer who inherits money from Leon Marechal.
Guy de {Maupassant}