Flaubert Sport & leisure industries What began as a journey

What began as a journey of escape becomes an extraordinary lesson in self-knowledge

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Flaubert Sport & leisure industries What began as a journeyMichel Winock's biography situates Gustave Flaubert's life and work in France's century of great democratic transition. Flaubert did not welcome the egalitarian society predicted by Tocqueville. Wary of the masses, he rejected the universal male suffrage hard won by the Revolution of 1848, and he was exasperated by the nascent socialism that promoted the collective to the detriment of the individual. But above all, he hated the bourgeoisie. Vulgar,