CHAPTER I.
Chateau de Chambord.
We walked through the empty galleries and deserted
rooms where spiders spin their cobwebs over the salamanders
of Francis the First. One is overcome by a feeling
...
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The French novelist Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) was one of the most important forces in creating the modern novel as a conscious art form and in launching, much against his will, the realistic school...
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The enduring literary fame of Gustave Flaubert was established all at one go, in the course of a famous trial that simultaneously brought him success and scandal. In 1857, when Madame Bovary (transla...
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Over Strand and Field
Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert