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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).
6Edward D. Sullivan, Maupassant the Novelist (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1954), 74.
7Situations 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.