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_Domi mansit, lanam fecit:_ "He remained at home and wrote," is the first thing that should be said of Gustave Flaubert. This trait, which he shares with many of the writers of his generation,--Renan, Taine, Leconte de Lisle and Dumas _fils_,--distinguishes them and distinguis...
Yonville-l'Abbaye (so called from an old Capuchin abbey of which not even the ruins remain) is a market-town twenty-four miles from Rouen, between the Abbeville and Beauvais roa...
4. Chapter 4We were in class when the head-master came in, followed by a "new fellow," not wearing the school uniform, and a school servant carrying a large desk. Those who had been asleep...
3. Chapter 3_Domi mansit, lanam fecit:_ "He remained at home and wrote," is the first thing that should be said of Gustave Flaubert. This trait, which he shares with many of the writers of...
2. Chapter 21. Chapter 1