![]() ![]() He wrote a collection of short fiction stories, Trois contes (Three tales) in 1877.Ī perfectionist by nature, Flaubert’s publishing frequency was much less than that of his peers. Flaubert’s career progressed with another novel Salammbô (1862) and a political drama Le candidat(TheĬandidate) in 1874. However, Flaubert’s defense won the case and the novel came to be the most influential French novel of the nineteenth century. Despite the book doing tremendously well in terms of sales and critique, Flaubert was pressed with charges of obscenity and hurting public and religious morality in the novel. The novel was published in six installments by Du Camp’s literary journal Revue de Paris. ![]() He spent the next five years writing his greatest masterpiece, Madame Bovary. He spent most of his time at home due to ongoing treatment of epilepsy but travelled once again with a friend to Egypt and Far East in 1851. ![]() Flaubert returned to Rouen after the death of his father and lived there for the rest of his life. ![]()
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