Gustave Flaubert Quotes
Coffee: Induces wit. Good only if it comes through Havre. After a big dinner party it is taken standing up. Take it without sugar - very swank: gives the impression you have lived in the East.
Citations
Flaubert, Gustave. The Dictionary of Accepted Ideas. Translated by Jacques Barzun, New Directions Publishing, 1954, p. 26.
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Gustave Flaubert was an influential French novelist who was perhaps the leading exponent of literary realism in his country. He is known especially for his first published novel, Madame Bovary (1857), for his Correspondence, and for his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics. The celebrated short story writer {Guy de Maupassant} was a protégé of Flaubert.