WRITER

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". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gustave Flaubert has received more than 2,040,321 page views. His biography is available in 106 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 102 in 2019). Gustave Flaubert is the 45th most popular writer (up from 60th in 2019), the 39th most popular biography from France (up from 57th in 2019) and the 13th most popular French Writer.

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

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  • 106

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 14.52

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gustave Flaubert ranks 45 out of 7,302. Before him are Charles Dickens, Hermann Hesse, Charles Baudelaire, Émile Zola, Stendhal, and Euripides. After him are Aristophanes, Jane Austen, Aeschylus, Simone de Beauvoir, Octave Mirbeau, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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Contemporaries

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, Lola Montez, Elizabeth Blackwell, Auguste Mariette, Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria, Louis Vuitton, and Richard Francis Burton. Among people deceased in 1880, Gustave Flaubert ranks 1. After him are Jacques Offenbach, Maria Alexandrovna, George Eliot, Paul Broca, Henryk Wieniawski, William Lassell, Ned Kelly, Anselm Feuerbach, Michel Chasles, Emperor Norton, and Bettino Ricasoli.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gustave Flaubert ranks 39 out of 6,770. Before him are Émile Durkheim (1858), Alexandre Dumas (1802), Charles Baudelaire (1821), Pierre Curie (1859), Émile Zola (1840), and Stendhal (1783). After him are Henry IV of France (1553), Simone de Beauvoir (1908), Octave Mirbeau (1848), Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor (1122), Eugène Delacroix (1798), and Louis XIII of France (1601).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Gustave Flaubert ranks 13. Before him are Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900), Denis Diderot (1713), Alexandre Dumas (1802), Charles Baudelaire (1821), Émile Zola (1840), and Stendhal (1783). After him are Simone de Beauvoir (1908), Octave Mirbeau (1848), Marcel Proust (1871), Romain Rolland (1866), Charles Perrault (1628), and Arthur Rimbaud (1854).

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