Gustave Flaubert

In 1845, Gustave Flaubert called Anton a "grave figure, pale, aristocratic, sweet and sad."

Notice of Arrival Willard Spiegelman 2011

One of his exercises took inspiration from Gustave Flaubert reimagining his home city: "Paris will become a winter garden; fruit trees on the boulevard," wrote Flaubert.

Time management: reclaiming free time 2012

There was also Gustave Flaubert, who wrote the acclaimed Madame Bovary; Victor Hugo, who mesmerized readers with The Hunchback of Notre Dame and the aforementioned Les Miserables; and Guy de Maupassant, who was best known for short stories such as "The Necklace" but penned novels, too.

Dave Astor: The French Connection Between Old Books and Current Events Dave Astor 2011

"Faulks on Fiction" sets out its stall with a quote from Gustave Flaubert: "The author's life is nothing; it's the work that matters."

The Work, Not the Author, Matters Tobias Grey 2011

Here we can learn from another writer, Gustave Flaubert, who said: "Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough."

Stop the clock: time shouldn't be tied to timepieces 2012

There was also Gustave Flaubert, who wrote the acclaimed Madame Bovary; Victor Hugo, who mesmerized readers with The Hunchback of Notre Dame and the aforementioned Les Miserables; and Guy de Maupassant, who was best known for short stories such as "The Necklace" but penned novels, too.

Dave Astor: The French Connection Between Old Books and Current Events Dave Astor 2011

Given that he was a notorious onanist, it's a fair bet that Gustave Flaubert, were he alive today, would be an avid consumer of porn.

Who's in between the covers of Playboy now? Madame Bovary 2010

"'L'homme c'est rien -- l' oeuvre c'est tout, 'as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand."

Sole Music 2010

A boatman named Fony offers him his felucca to ride a stretch from Aswan to Luxor, but on learning that the only people plying the river are tourists, Mr. Morrison prefers a second-class rail car "to avoid the wordy wake of Gustave Flaubert, Florence Nightingale and William Golding."

Longest River, Wide Adventure 2010

Gustave Flaubert and Maxime du Camp journeyed down the Nile in a dahabiyya (a journey which sparked Flaubert's "The Temptation of St. Antoine", alive with Egyptian mythology), and so did a god-inspired Florence Nightingale, invited by her wealthy patrons to take what was then the most elite form of travel in Africa.

Karin Badt: Going Down the Nile in Style: the 19th Century Dahabiyya Restored 2009