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What was Gustave Flaubert's first published masterpiece?

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In 1856, after five years of work, Flaubert published his masterpiece, Madame Bovary, in a Paris Journal. Portraying the frustrations and love affairs of a romantic young woman married to a dull provincial doctor.

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