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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) also known as Flambert, 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 1,916,554 page views. His biography is available in 102 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 100 in 2019). Gustave Flaubert is the 60th most popular writer (down from 58th in 2019), the 57th most popular biography from France (down from 49th in 2019) and the 15th most popular French Writer.

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

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  • 102

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  • 4.27

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gustave Flaubert ranks 60 out of 5,755. Before him are Gabriel García Márquez, Daniel Defoe, Li Bai, Bertolt Brecht, Stendhal, and Umberto Eco. After him are Thomas Mann, Rabindranath Tagore, Jack London, Henrik Ibsen, Stefan Zweig, and Arthur Rimbaud.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1821, Gustave Flaubert ranks 2. Before him is Fyodor Dostoevsky. After him are Charles Baudelaire, Hermann von Helmholtz, Rudolf Virchow, Richard Francis Burton, Pafnuty Chebyshev, August Schleicher, Elizabeth Blackwell, Pauline Viardot, Lola Montez, and Louis Vuitton. Among people deceased in 1880, Gustave Flaubert ranks 1. After him are Jacques Offenbach, Maria Alexandrovna, George Eliot, Paul Broca, Henryk Wieniawski, Emperor Norton, William Lassell, Ned Kelly, Anselm Feuerbach, Michel Chasles, and Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gustave Flaubert ranks 57 out of 6,011. Before him are Brigitte Bardot (1934), Francis I of France (1494), Pierre de Fermat (1601), Michel Foucault (1926), William the Conqueror (1028), and Stendhal (1783). After him are Edgar Degas (1834), Georges Bizet (1838), Jacques-Louis David (1748), Arthur Rimbaud (1854), Charles Perrault (1628), and Claude Debussy (1862).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Gustave Flaubert ranks 15. Before him are Marcel Proust (1871), Denis Diderot (1713), Simone de Beauvoir (1908), Octave Mirbeau (1848), Émile Zola (1840), and Stendhal (1783). After him are Arthur Rimbaud (1854), Charles Perrault (1628), Romain Rolland (1866), Marquis de Sade (1740), Jean de La Fontaine (1621), and George Sand (1804).

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