Like many other Frenchmen, Maupassant felt very bitter about France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, which lasted from July of 1870 to May of 1871.
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"Gives thy pen both skill and argument,"
"Spend'st thou thy fury on some worthless song,"
"the ear that doth thy lays esteem,"
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