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Flaubert Also by Frederick Brown An Impersonation of Angels: A Biography of Jean Cocteau Père-Lachaise: Elysium as Real Estate Theater and Revolution: The Culture of the French Stage Zola: A Life An early-nineteenth-century view of Rouen, showing the rue Damiette running uphill to the magnificent abbey church of Saint-Ouen. (Bibliothèque Municipale de Rouen) Gustave’s mother as a young woman, possibly young enough to have been the ward of Dr. Laumonier. (Bibliothèque Nationale de France) Caroline Flaubert, Gustave’s mother, in 1831. At age thirty-eight she glumly displays the fash ions of the period: balloon sleeves that made her look much wider than she was. and artificial hair in an unadorned version of the “Apollo knot.” (Bibliothèque Nationale de France) Dr. Achille-Cléophas Flaubert. Gustave's father, chief surgeon of the Hôtel-Dieu. Painting by J. Court. (Musée Flaubert et histoire de la medicine. Photograph by C.H.U. Rouen) Gustave’s birthplace, a room in the Flauberts’ apartment at the Hôtel-Dieu. (Bibliothèque Municipale de Rouen. Photograph by Thierry Ascensio-Parvy) Dr. Achille Flaubert, Gustave’s older brother. Portrait by Hippolyte Bellangé.The doctor’s face unnerved Gustave’s young niece. (Musée Flaubert. Photograph by C.H.U. Rouen) Caroline Flaubert, Gustave’s sister. No other image of her survives. The bust is by James Pradier, who also sculpted Gustave’s father. (Musée Flaubert. Photograph by C.H.U. Rouen) Gustave in 1830, age nine, by Eustache-Hyacinthe Langlois. (Bibliothèque Nationale de France) Gustave in 1833, age twelve, by a relatively unknown painter. (Bibliothèque Municipale de Rouen. Photograph by Thierry Ascencio- Parvy) The Flauberts’ wing of the Hôtel-Dieu, to the right, viewed from the place de la Madeleine. The walled garden of the Flauberts’ hospital quarters. A letter from Gustave to his beloved childhood friend Ernest Chevalier. It is dated 1S32, the year he began his formal studies at the collegiate school. (Musée Flaubert. Photograph by C.H.U. Rouen) Entrance of the school Gustave attended from the age of ten, known then as the Collège royal and since renamed the Lycée Corneille. (Milbank Memorial Library, Teachers College, Columbia University) Alfred Le Poittevin, near the end of his life. He was Gustave’s boyhood idol, always portrayed as his maître à penser. Le Poittevin's nephew was Guy de Maupassant.