biography
pronunciation:
[flohbair]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1821–80)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Rouen, NW France. He studied law at Paris, then turned to writing. His masterpiece was Madame Bovary (1857), a portrait of a young woman who cannot come to terms with the limitations of provincial life, which was condemned as immoral and its author (unsuccessfully) prosecuted. His other works include Salammbô (1862), and La Tentation de St Antoine (1874, The Temptation of St Anthony). Trois contes (1877, Three Tales) reveals his mastery of the short story, while his genius as a letter writer is apparent in the volumes of his Correspondance (1926–33). |
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