MAUPASSANT (de), Guy (1850-1893)

Autograph signed document « Guy de Maupassant » to Georges Charpentier
Paris, 24th April 1880, 1 page in-8-oblong.

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MAUPASSANT (de), Guy (1850-1893)

Autograph signed document « Guy de Maupassant » to Georges Charpentier
Paris, 24th April 1880, 1 page in-8-oblong.
Very slightly frayed left edge with tiny missing paper without affecting the text

Remarkable copyright receipt, entirely filled in and signed by Maupassant for his masterpiece Boule de Suif


“Je reconnais avoir reçu de Monsieur G. [Georges] Charpentier, éditeur, la somme de DEUX CENT CINQUANTE FRANCS, montant de mes droits d’auteur sur les 3 premières éditions (tirage à 1000 exemplaires chacun, de ma nouvelle intitulée:
Soirées de Medan, Boule de suif (droits du sixième) suivant nos conventions en date du

Paris, le 24 Avril 1880.
Guy de Maupassant”


Boule de Suif is one of Maupassant’s most famous novels. It was written in the course of 1879, made public in 1880, first by a reading made in January by Maupassant himself in front of his friends of the “Groupe de Médan” and then by the publication, in a collective collection of short stories entitled “Les Soirées de Médan” April 15, 1880 published by Charpentier.

Flaubert then wrote « Boule de Suif [] is a masterpiece »