Used Book – Bel-Ami, Guy de Maupassant, Philippe Bonnefis, Jacques Laurent

To whom does Georges Duroy owe his irresistible rise? To the women seduced by his youth and beauty. The granddaughter of one of his mistresses would nickname him Bel-Ami. And this son of Norman innkeepers, from Canteleu, would become Baron Du Roy de Cantel. Friendship would open the door to a journalistic career for him. Love would bring him money and glory. Maupassant was a journalist. He knew this 19th-century Parisian world, the newsrooms that made and unmade ministries, and their annexes, the social salons where intrigues and liaisons were born. His portraits of women consumed by love or ambition, his paintings of the Seine valley in Rouen, his hansom cabs on Avenue du Bois de Boulogne, are the work of a painter. Maupassant was a master storyteller.