- Born
- December 12, 1821
- Died
- May 8, 1880 (aged 58)
- Known as
- novelist, writer, dramaturge
Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist. He has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad. He is known especially for his debut novel Madame Bovary (1857), his Correspondence, and his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics. The celebrated writer Guy de Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert.
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