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1821 – 1880 · Rouen
Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert spent his life at one desk in Normandy, weighing every sentence until it rang true.
Born Rouen, France
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Gustave Flaubert was born in 1821 in Rouen, in northern France. His father was a busy hospital surgeon. Because of that, Flaubert grew up around illness and science, with a clear-eyed view of the body. He studied law in Paris but hated it. When a nervous illness struck in his early twenties, he gave up his studies and returned home to write.
Books on the Atlas
- Madame Bovary 1857
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