Gustave Flaubert

Born December 12, 1821· Rouen, Normandy, Kingdom of France

† Died May 8, 1880

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Emerging from a medical family in Rouen, he completed his schooling at the Lycée Pierre-Corneille and briefly pursued law studies in Paris before abandoning the discipline after a health setback. His literary output began with the novella November (1842) and quickly moved to the ambitious The Temptation of Saint Anthony (1849), which he read aloud to friends without seeking their critique. The fiv… Read more

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