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Gustave Flaubert

1821 to 1880 5 documented presences 5 places

Quo Fuit places 5 dated presences for Gustave Flaubert across 5 places, from 1840 to 1850. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.

Gustave Flaubert (12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880) was a French novelist.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Gustave Flaubert was documented, and when

1840year
Rouenattested “He was educated at the Lycée Pierre-Corneille in Rouen, and did not leave until 1840, whereupon he went to Paris to study law.” source: Wikipedia: Gustave Flaubert
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Lycée Pierre-Corneilleattested “He was educated at the Lycée Pierre-Corneille in Rouen, and did not leave until 1840, whereupon he went to Paris to study law.” source: Wikipedia: Gustave Flaubert
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Parisattested “He was educated at the Lycée Pierre-Corneille in Rouen, and did not leave until 1840, whereupon he went to Paris to study law.” source: Wikipedia: Gustave Flaubert
1850year
Egyptattested “In 1850, after returning from Egypt, Flaubert began work on Madame Bovary.” source: Wikipedia: Gustave Flaubert
1850year
Istanbulattested “He spent five weeks in Istanbul in 1850.” source: Wikipedia: Gustave Flaubert

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Places Gustave Flaubert is documented in

Egypt1 presence · 1850Istanbul1 presence · 1850Paris1 presence · 1840Rouen1 presence · 1840
Lycée Pierre-Corneille1 presence · 1840

Other places tied to Gustave Flaubert in the record

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Parismentioned “In 1846, after an attack of epilepsy, he left Paris and abandoned the study of law.” source: Wikipedia: Gustave Flaubert
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Brittanymentioned “With his lifelong friend Maxime Du Camp, he traveled in Brittany in 1846.” source: Wikipedia: Gustave Flaubert
1849year
Greecementioned “In 1849–50 he went on a long journey to the Middle East, visiting Greece and Egypt.” source: Wikipedia: Gustave Flaubert
1849year
Middle Eastmentioned “In 1849–50 he went on a long journey to the Middle East, visiting Greece and Egypt.” source: Wikipedia: Gustave Flaubert
1858year
Carthagementioned “In 1858, Flaubert travelled to Carthage to gather material for his next novel, Salammbô.” source: Wikipedia: Gustave Flaubert
1880year
Canteleumentioned “His health declined and he died at Croisset of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1880 at the age of 58.” source: Wikipedia: Gustave Flaubert

Documented at the same place, the same year

Alexandre CabanelParis · 1840

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Sources

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