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1 Its continuing popularity has not been harmed by cinematic versions of the novel, notably Albert Lewin’s stylish The Private Affairs of Bel-Ami (1947); nor by the equally stylish Hotel Bel-Ami, recently opened on the Left Bank (The Times, 12 May 2000).
2 See vol. i (Ambition, Love and Politics) of Theodore Zeldin, France 1848–1945, 2 vols. (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1973–7), especially chs. 5 and 6.
3 Maupassant. ‘Bel-Ami’ (London, Grant & Cutler, 1988), 77.
4 See Bradford R. Collins (ed.), 12 Views of Manet’s ‘Bar’ (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1996), 193.
5 André Vial, Guy de Maupassant et l’art du roman (Paris, Nizet, 1954), 358 (my translation).
6 Edward D. Sullivan, Maupassant the Novelist (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1954), 74.
7 Situations II (Paris, Gallimard, 1948), 173 (my translation).
8 Maupassant. ‘Bel-Ami’, 24.
9 Guy de Maupassant et l’art du roman, 358 (my translation).
10 Maupassant. ‘Bel-Ami’ (Paris, Hatier, 1972), 46.
1 This intriguing name is first mentioned in the novel on p. 70. For a discussion of its meaning see the Introduction, p. xxxv.
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