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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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