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dec 12 Learn More Gustave Flaubert Born
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French author Gustave Flaubert was born on this day in 1821. While he's best known for writing classics like Madame Bovary and A Simple Heart, Flaubert really started amassing accolades as a teenager: at age fifteen he won a prize for an essay about mushrooms. So the morel of the story is—nah, we couldn't do that to you, Shmooper.
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