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Bel-Ami

Guy de Maupassant
Realist French Literature

Bel-Ami

A critique of journalism and the complex politics and corruption present in the newspaper industry in Paris at the turn of the last century, this is a review of Guy de Maupassant’s Bel-Ami.

May 10, 2021May 19, 2021 by S. Hargrave — Comment on Bel-Ami
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