Flaubert

[ floh-bair; French floh-ber ]

noun

1. Gus·tave [g, y, s-, tav], 1821–80, French novelist.

Flaubert

/ ˈfləʊbɛə; flobɛr /

noun

1. FlaubertGustave18211880MFrenchWRITING: novelistWRITING: short-story writer 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)

Example Sentences

Spuck, 54, is the brand-new artistic director of the Staatsballett, Germany’s largest — and currently most beleaguered — ballet company, and the dancers were rehearsing a scene from his full-length ballet “Bovary,” based on the Flaubert novel.

From New York Times

He's more into the timeless classics, like Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" and Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray."

From Salon

She was visited in her dressing room by Gustave Flaubert, while Mark Twain wrote: “There are five kinds of actresses: bad actresses, fair actresses, good actresses, great actresses, and Sarah Bernhardt.”

From Seattle Times

“Sue me for not being Flaubert,” he told People magazine.

From Washington Post

At 85, he retains, as Daphne Merkin once wrote in The New York Times, a louche glamour, “like a lounge lizard who reads Flaubert.”

From New York Times