Chez Maupassant

{{Short description|2007–2011 anthology television series}}

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| genre = Drama

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• {{ill|Gérard Jourd'hui|fr}}
• Gaëlle Girre

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| based_on = short stories by Guy de Maupassant

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| country = France

| language = French

| num_seasons = 3

| num_episodes = 24

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• 12 × 30 minutes
• 12 × 60 minutes

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| network = France 2

| first_aired = {{Start date|2007|3|6|df=y}}

| last_aired = {{End date|2011|5|18|df=y}}

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Chez Maupassant is a French anthology television series based on short stories by Guy de Maupassant. Created by {{ill|Gérard Jourd'hui|fr}} and Gaëlle Girre, it ran on France 2 in three seasons in 2007, 2008 and 2011. It consists of a total of 24 episodes of which half are 60 minutes long and half are 30 minutes.{{cite book |last1=Griffith |first1=Kate |last2=Watts |first2=Andrew |year=2013 |chapter=Chez Maupassant: The (In) Visible Space of Television Adaptation |title=Adapting Nineteenth-Century France: Literature in Film, Theatre, Television, Radio and Print |publisher=University of Wales Press |pages=143–171 |jstor=j.ctt9qhk6q.10 }}{{cite news |url=https://www.premiere.fr/series/Chez-Maupassant |title=Chez Maupassant |newspaper=Première |language=fr |access-date=14 March 2025 }} The first series averaged more than seven million viewers, which made it an unexpected success.{{cite news |url=https://variety.com/2007/scene/markets-festivals/maupassant-a-hit-with-france-1117962574/ |title='Maupassant' a hit with France |newspaper=Variety |access-date=14 March 2025 }}