"Good friend": Flaubert, a bobo before the hour

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If Gustave Flaubert was never either father or husband, if he was a proud son of his father's surgeon and darling of his old mother, who nurtured him until the end of his life, he was above all a friend.

A good friend, attentive to his friends and loved by them.

He was

George Sand's

“old troubadour”

for Christmas 1869, treating the whole family at Nohant with his giant

“infinitely good”

jokes

while having fun himself

“like a mustard”,

forty years after having been the faithful

“Until the death”

of his college friend Ernest Chevalier.

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