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Useless Beauty

short story by Guy de Maupassant
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Summary

Useless Beauty is a literary work[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of literary work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (86 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Author: Guy de Maupassant[3]
  • Language of work or name: French[4]
  • Country of origin: United States[5]
  • Publication date: 1890[6]
  • Has edition or translation: Useless Beauty[7], Q52132345[8]
  • Title: L’inutile Beauté[9]
  • Copyright status: public domain[10]
  • Form of creative work: short story[11]

Why It Matters

Useless Beauty is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

Related Entities

Guy de Maupassant literary work public domain United States

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4d ago · HedgeHog · 2026-10-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has edition or translation → Useless Beauty, Q52132345
    Publication date → —
    Copyright status → public domain, public domain
    Author → Guy de Maupassant
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Bookbrainz work id: 874b1845-591b-444b-9a44-ba08be62c2e1, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/290269|batch #290269]]"
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