Gustave Flaubert 
Three Tales – Flaubert 

Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) is a legend, one of the great French writers. He wrote the novel ’Madame Bovary, ’ which landed him in court. He was accused of offending morality and religion. He was acquitted by the Sixth Correctional Court of the Seine Tribunal and condemned by puritans for the themes of adultery, criticism of the clergy, and the bourgeoisie. Flaubert is one of the most important representatives of French realism. In the work ’Three Tales, ’ written during a difficult period of his life, Flaubert demonstrates his enormous talent as a writer. The three narratives gathered in ’Three Tales’ were written with such mastery that it's hard to believe Gustave Flaubert was going through a crisis when he created them.

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Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) was a French writer. An important prose writer, Flaubert left his mark on French literature with the depth of his psychological analyses, his sense of reality, his lucidity about social behavior, and the strength of his style in major novels such as ’Madame Bovary’ (1857), ’Sentimental Education’ (1869), ’Salammbô’ (1862), as well as his short stories, three of which were published in the work ’Three Tales’ – ’Trois contes’ (1877).