Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert was born in Rouen on 12 December 1821, the son of Achille-Cléophas Flaubert, chief surgeon of the city's Hôtel-Dieu. He studied law in Paris, which he abandoned after a serious nervous crisis, and withdrew to the family estate at Croisset, on the banks of the Seine. In 1849 he set out on a long journey to the East. He worked on each sentence by testing it aloud and left a considerable correspondence. The setbacks of his niece's husband put him in debt in the 1870s, and he died on 8 May 1880.

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• NovelMadame BovaryGustave Flaubert · 1857LiteraturePublic domain