Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
Gustave Flaubert
Born: December 12, 1821
Died: May 8, 1880 (aged 58)
Bio: Gustave Flaubert was an influential French novelist who was perhaps the leading exponent of literary realism in his country.
Known for:
- Madame Bovary (1856)
- Sentimental Education (1869)
- Salammbô (1862)
- Three Tales (1877)
- Bouvard et Pécuchet
Gustave Flaubert Quotes