Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) was a famous French novelist of the nineteenth century. He was best known for his novel Madame Bovary. Known as the Hermit of Croisset, his literary realism, perfected...
".....we are surrounded by the heroism of modern life, (but there is as yet no painter) who will know how to tear out of life its epic side and make us see, with color or drawing, how grand we are in...