l. On the night of January 2, 1892, Maupassant made an unsuccessful attempt at taking his own life. On the 7th of January he was interned at Dr. Blanche's mental hospital in Passy, near his beloved Seine. Maupassant captured in his art the timeless joys and tragedies of human existing work have received the imprimatur of the French literary establishment, publication in the prestigious Pleiades edition. Maupassant captured in his art the timeless joys and tragedies of human existence, and his characters, as recognizable today as they were one hundred years ago, have withstood the test of timeistence, the test of time ten months. He knew a terrifying succession of hallucination, seizures, convulsions, and attacks of delirium. He died on July 6, 1893, at the age of forty-two, of third-stage syphilis. Its creative life was cut short by a degenerative condition stemming from syphilis, which he had contracted as a young man. The disease led to recurrent problems with emotional collapse. Struggling with bouts of debilitating mental illness, Maupassant attempted suicide in 1892 and was subsequently confined to a sanatorium in Passy, where he died. ...
