"The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments."
Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist and a central figure in literary realism. Born in Rouen on 1821-12-12, he is best known for Madame Bovary and for his exacting prose style. He died at Croisset on 1880-05-08.