Mo Bosang was born in a declining aristocratic family in Normandy, northwest France, on August 5th, 1850. Mo Bosang spent his childhood in the countryside and towns of Normandy. He only stayed with his parents at Napoleon Middle School in Paris during the period from 1859 to 1860. Later, his parents divorced because of his father's idleness, and he returned to Normandy with his mother. The life in his hometown and the beautiful nature deeply influenced Mo Bosang and became an important source of his future literary creation.
Mo Bosang's mother, mengle Lepoutre, is a woman with profound literary accomplishment. Mo Bosang was deeply influenced by her since he was a child. mengle's brother was an old friend of the famous writer Flaubert and the young folk poet Louis Buye. When Mo Bosang was studying in Gao Naiyi Middle School in Rouen, he met these two friends of his uncle. This is because he has long been a young man who loves literature and has begun to write poems. He heard "concise teachings" from these two predecessors, and gained "profound understanding of skills" and "the power to keep trying". Unfortunately, Louis Buye died on 1869. In the same year, Mo Bosang came to Paris University to amend the law. Shortly after the Franco-Prussian War broke out, Mo Bosang was drafted into the army. Work as a clerk and correspondent in the army. In this disaster, he witnessed the shameful failure of the French army, the meanness of powerful people, the patriotic enthusiasm and heroic resistance of ordinary people, and was deeply moved, which became another important source of his future literary creation.
After retiring from the army after the war, Mo Bosang began to work as a clerk in the Admiralty in March 1872. Seven years later, he was transferred to the Ministry of Public Education, and he resigned completely at 188 1. In the life of an empty and boring clerk, Mo Bosang unfortunately contracted the bad habits of inaction and dissolute private life, which led to his early death. But on the other hand. He is also diligent in writing, and studied with Flaubert for ten years under his specific guidance. During this period, 1876, he got to know writers such as Leckie, Theal and houseman. They all worship Zola together and often get together for the "Meitang Group" in Meitang Villa on the outskirts of Paris. 1880, A Night in Meitang Group, a collection of works by six writers with the Franco-Prussian War as the theme, came out, among which Mo Bosang's boule de suif was the best. The great success of this novella made Mo Bosang famous in the Parisian literary world overnight.
In addition to boule de suif, the treasure in the short story library, Mo Bosang also wrote Family (188 1), My Uncle Yule (1883), Milon's Dad (1383) and Two Friends. Mo Bosang's novels have also made relatively high achievements. He wrote six novels: Life (1883), Good Friends (also translated by Belami, 1885), Hot Springs (1886), Pierre and John (1887).
Mo Bosang has early symptoms of neuralgia. He struggled tenaciously with the disease for a long time, insisted on writing, and his great labor intensity and unrestrained life gradually made him terminally ill. Until 189 1, he couldn't write any more. After suffering from cruel diseases, he finally died on July 6, 1993 at the age of 43.