Flaubert

[ floh-bair; French floh-ber ]

noun
  1. Gus·tave [gys-tav], /güsˈtav/, 1821–80, French novelist.

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How to use Flaubert in a sentence

  • The last thing which Flaubert desired to portray in that depressing picture was an existence in any sense artistic.

    Vie de Bohme | Orlo Williams
  • The same may be said, in a more transitory sense, of Flaubert, the great renovator and refiner of Romanticism.

    Vie de Bohme | Orlo Williams
  • He complains that Gautier is lacking in a concern about supernatural hocus-pocus and that Flaubert is lacking.

    Instigations | Ezra Pound
  • He never manages the classic, I mean as Flaubert gives us in each main character: Everyman.

    Instigations | Ezra Pound
  • One may conceivably be bored by certain pages in Flaubert, but one takes from him a solid and concrete memory, a property.

    Instigations | Ezra Pound

British Dictionary definitions for Flaubert

Flaubert

/ (ˈfləʊbɛə, French flobɛr) /


noun
  1. Gustave (ɡystav). 1821–80, French novelist and short-story writer, regarded as a leader of the 19th-century naturalist school. His most famous novel, Madame Bovary (1857), for which he was prosecuted (and acquitted) on charges of immorality, and L'Éducation sentimentale (1869) deal with the conflict of romantic attitudes and bourgeois society. His other major works include Salammbô (1862), La Tentation de Saint Antoine (1874), and Trois contes (1877)

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