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French novelist Gustave Flaubert, author of Madame Bovary, is born in 1821 in Rouen, France.
Flaubert, the son of the chief surgeon of the hospital in Rouen, France, began writing stories in his teens. He traveled extensively with French writer Maxime du Camp, taking extended walking tours with her and journeying to Greece, Syria, and Egypt from 1849 to 1851.
When Flaubert returned from the journey, he began work on Madame Bovary, which took five years to write.
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