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  • NAME: Gustave Flaubert
  • OCCUPATION: Author
  • BIRTH DATE: December 12, 1821
  • DEATH DATE: May 08, 1880
  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Rouen, France
  • PLACE OF DEATH: Croisset, France

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French novelist Gustave Flaubert, born in 1821, is best known for his masterpiece Madame Bovary and is renowned as a classic French realist writer.


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Born in 1821, Gustave Flaubert is best known for his masterpiece Madame Bovary. The French novelist wrote a number of other classics, however, and is renowned as the foremost expert of French realism.

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