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Gustave Flaubert

1821 - 1880

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Gustave Flaubert (UK: FLOH-bair, US: floh-BAIR; French: [ɡystav flobɛʁ]; 12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880) was a French novelist. He has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad. According to the literary theorist Kornelije Kvas, "in Flaubert, realism strives for formal perfection, so the presentation of reality tends to be neutral, emphasizing the values and importance of style as an objective method of presenting reality". He is known especially for his debut novel Madame Bovary (1857), his Correspondence, and his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gustave Flaubert is the 54th most popular writer (down from 45th in 2019), the 50th most popular biography from France (down from 39th in 2019) and the 14th most popular French Writer.

Gustave Flaubert is most famous for his novels Madame Bovary and Sentimental Education.

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Among writers, Gustave Flaubert ranks 54 out of 7,302. Before him are Aristophanes, Thomas Hardy, Charles Baudelaire, Marcel Proust, Denis Diderot, and Émile Zola. After him are Euripides, Li Bai, Octave Mirbeau, Astrid Lindgren, Oscar Wilde, and Mark Twain.

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Among people born in 1821, Gustave Flaubert ranks 3. Before him are Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Charles Baudelaire. After him are Hermann von Helmholtz, Rudolf Virchow, August Schleicher, Auguste Mariette, Lola Montez, Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria, Elizabeth Blackwell, Wilhelm Tempel, and Louis Vuitton. Among people deceased in 1880, Gustave Flaubert ranks 1. After him are Jacques Offenbach, William Lassell, Maria Alexandrovna, Henryk Wieniawski, George Eliot, Paul Broca, Emperor Norton, Michel Chasles, Ned Kelly, Anselm Feuerbach, and James Craig Watson.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gustave Flaubert ranks 50 out of 6,770. Before him are Marcel Proust (1871), Henry IV of France (1553), Pierre Curie (1859), Denis Diderot (1713), André-Marie Ampère (1775), and Émile Zola (1840). After him are Brigitte Bardot (1934), Édouard Manet (1832), Octave Mirbeau (1848), Henri Becquerel (1852), Eugène Delacroix (1798), and Stendhal (1783).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Gustave Flaubert ranks 14. Before him are Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900), Simone de Beauvoir (1908), Charles Baudelaire (1821), Marcel Proust (1871), Denis Diderot (1713), and Émile Zola (1840). After him are Octave Mirbeau (1848), Stendhal (1783), Romain Rolland (1866), Charles Perrault (1628), Guy de Maupassant (1850), and Alexandre Dumas fils (1824).

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