The Italian fashion designer cites 19th-century French authors such as Gustave Flaubert and J.

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He is the youngest member of the French Academy, the official guardian of the language of Voltaire and Flaubert.

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She has translated a number of French philosophy and literature works, most notably Swann's Way by Marcel Proust and Flaubert's Madame Bovary.

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Clavaud's microscope illuminated what Redon called the "intermediary life between animal and plant, " and his bookshelf introduced the artist to Gustave Flaubert and Edgar Allan Poe.

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Clement Barraud scowled with the world's own confusion as he read a gift copy of The Temptation of Saint Anthony, by Gustave Flaubert, that the Rector had given him permission to keep.

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