Mémoires d’un fou
work by Flaubert
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discussed in biography
- In Gustave Flaubert: Mature career
…he completed the manuscript of Mémoires d’un fou (“Memoirs of a Mad Man”), which recounted his devastating passion for Elisa Schlésinger, 11 years his senior and the wife of a music publisher, whom he had met in 1836. This passion was only revealed to her 35 years later when she…
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