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is there that it completes its first version of "Sentimental
Education". In 1846, her father then his sister die, Flaubert
is affected, but finds courage and taste with the life by meeting
Louise Collet who will become her mistress.
In 1852, it begins the writing of "Mrs Bovary" whom
it will complete four years and half later, because for Flaubert,
the writing of a novel is a long process which requires an important
documentation. In 1857, following the publication of "Mrs
Bovary" in "the review of Paris", one brings to
him a lawsuit for attack with the moralities: it is discharged.
The publication in 1862 of its historical novel on Carthage, "Salammbô",
is a success. In 1863, it attends much the Parisian evenings where
it meets George Sand. This meeting will give rise to a long friendship
and an abundant correspondence. From 1864 to 1869, Flaubert writes
second "Sentimental Education" that criticisms ridicule.
The book is sold very badly. In 1872, the death of his/her mother
plunges Flaubert in a great loneliness.
In 1874, it publishes the third version of "the Temptation
Of Saint-Anthony", new work that criticism disapproves. Associated
family financial problems, this failure does not leave marble
Flaubert. On the councils of George Sand, he writes "Three
Tales" in less than two years. He receives finally the praises
of criticism and goes back to work with even more heat, but leaves
his last unfinished novel. Gustave Flaubert dies on May 8 1880
of a cerebral haemorrhage.
Principal works :
Madame Bovary (1857)
Salammbo (1862)
L'Education sentimentale (1869)
La Tentation de Saint Antoine (1874)
Trois contes (1877)
Bouvard et Pécuchet (1881, publication posthume)
Dictionnaire des idées reçues (1911, publication posthume)
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