Quelle atroce invention que celle du bourgeois, n'est-ce pa… - Gustave Flaubert

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Quelle atroce invention que celle du bourgeois, n'est-ce pas?

Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert (December 12 1821 – May 8 1880) was an influential French writer who was perhaps the leading exponent of literary realism of his country. He is known especially for his first published novel, Madame Bovary (1857), for his Correspondence, and for his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics.

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