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  2. Gustave Flaubert - Wikipedia

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    Gustave Flaubert (UK: / ˈ f l oʊ b ɛər / FLOH-bair, US: / f l oʊ ˈ b ɛər / floh-BAIR; [1] [2] 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.

  3. Category:19th-century French novelists - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "19th-century French novelists" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 300 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  4. Gustave Drouineau - Wikipedia

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    Gustave Pierre Drouineau (22 February 1798 – 19 April 1878) was a 19th-century French novelist, poet and playwright. Biography Coming ...

  5. List of French novelists - Wikipedia

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    Charles Dezobry (1798–1871), historian and historical novelist; Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), author of La Comédie Humaine, a series of novels presenting a full picture of France in the early 19th century

  6. Madame Bovary - Wikipedia

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    Madame Bovary (/ ˈ b oʊ v ə r i /; [1] French: [madam bɔvaʁi]), originally published as Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners (French: Madame Bovary: Mœurs de province [madam bɔvaʁi mœʁ(s) də pʁɔvɛ̃s]), is a novel by French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1857. The eponymous character lives beyond her means in order to escape ...

  7. 19th-century French literature - Wikipedia

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    Gustave Flaubert's great novels Madame Bovary (1857)—which reveals the tragic consequences of romanticism on the wife of a provincial doctor—and Sentimental Education represent perhaps the highest stages in the development of French realism, while Flaubert's romanticism is apparent in his fantastic The Temptation of Saint Anthony and the ...

  8. Category:19th-century French writers - Wikipedia

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    This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:19th-century French male writers and Category:19th-century French women writers The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.

  9. Guy de Maupassant - Wikipedia

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    Henri-René-Albert-Guy de Maupassant was born on 5 August 1850 at the late 16th-century Château de Miromesnil (near Dieppe in the Seine-Inférieure (now Seine-Maritime) Department, France), the elder son of Gustave de Maupassant (1821–99) and Laure Le Poittevin, [6] whose family hailed from the prosperous bourgeoisie.