Full Name: Gustave Flaubert
Nickname: Didn't have a Nickname

Father: Achille-Cléophas Flaubert (d. 1846)
Mother: Anne-Justine-Caroline Fleuriot (d. 1872)
Sister: Caroline Flaubert (b. 1824)
Girlfriend: Louise Colet (1846-55, d. Mar-1876)

Date of Birth: 12 December 1821
Birth Place: Rouen, France

Date of Death: 08 May 1880 (aged 58)
Death Place: Rouen, France
Cause of Death: Cerebral Hemorrhage
Remains: Buried, Rouen Cemetery, Rouen, France

Gender: Male
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius
Race or Ethnicity: White
Education: Collége Royal de Rouen
Occupation: Novelist, playwright
Genres: Fictional prose
Nationality: France

Influence By: Cervantes, Lord Byron, Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Chateaubriand.

Influenced: Anton Chekhov, Jean-Paul Sartre, Vladimir Nabokov, Ezra Pound, Ivan Turgenev, Guram Dochanashvili.

Major Writings: Madame Bovary (1857, novel); Salammbo (1862); L'Education Sentimentale(1869); Trois contes (1877, short stories); La Tentation de Saint Antoine (1874); Bouvard et Pécuchet (1881).

French novelist and dramatist Gustave Flaubert (12 December 1821 - 08 May 1880) is considered one of the greatest novelists in Western literature. He was one of the most important forces who presented the modern novel as a deliberate art form. He is best known for his first published novel, Madame Bovary (1857).

Early Life & Childhood: Gustave Flaubert was born on 12 December 1821 in Rouen, France. He began to write when he was only eight years old. Then Flaubert entered the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen where he studied until 1840. In 1840, he was to Paris to study law. In Paris, he was known as an indifferent student. He found the city disagreeable. During this time, Flaubert became acquainted with some famous people including Victor Hugo. In 1846, he was attacked by epilepsy and left Paris along with his low study.

Personal Life: Gustave Flaubert's father, Achille-Cléophas Flaubert was the chief surgeon in Rouen and his mother was named Anne-Justine-Caroline. He was the fifth of six children of his parents. Flaubert had a relationship with the poet Louise Colet but he never married.

Later Life & Death: Gustave Flaubert was largely influenced by the writing of the renowned French writer Honoré de Balzac. From 1849 to 1850, he went on a long journey to Greece and Egypt. In 1850, he began to write his famous novel Madame Bovary which was published in 1857. In 1858, he travelled to Carthage to collect material for his next novel Salammbô which was published in 1862. In 1870, Flaubert became very sick, but he continued writing. After that, he wrote Trois contes (1877, short stories); La Tentation de Saint Antoine (1874); Bouvard et Pécuchet (1881). He died on 08 May 1880. Gustave Flaubert was buried at Rouen Cemetery, Rouen, France.