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Map of Gustave Flaubert's travels

five main adventures: Marseilles 18yo; Italy 23yo; Loire 25yo; mideast 28yo; North Africa 36yo

1821: 12Dec: Gustave Flaubert born in Rouen

1840: Oct: Mediterranean tour, loses virginity in Marseilles to 35yo Creole Eulalie Foucaud (4-day affair fictionalised in 'November')

1845: Mar: family tours south; GF in Genoa sees Breughel of St Anthony

1847: walking tour of the Loire and Brittany's coast; Par les champs et par les greves [French] [Amazon]

1849: plans travels around eastern Mediterranean until April 1851; mother approves $100k budget (27.5k francs)

1849: Du Camp and Bouilhet condemn 'Anthony' after marathon reading by GF

1849: 26Oct: first letter after leaving mother [FiE22]

"Think, poor darling, of how terrible my remorse would be if this trip were distressing to you... I love you with all my heart: it is full of you."

1849: 04Nov-15Nov: steamship 'Nil' from Marseilles to Alexandria [FiE27]

"I'm on top of the world. I don't know why, but I'm adored on board."

Egypt, mideast, Greece, Italy [French] [naughty bits] [bkrev] (epileptic attacks; catches syphilis)

Maxime Du Camp took photos [info] [Sphinx]

1849: 01Dec: "My head is completely shaved except for one lock at the occiput (by which Mohammed lifts you up on Judgment Day) and adorned with a tarboosh of screaming red..."

1849: 08Dec: watches sunrise from top of Great Pyramid [FiE52]

"...as the sun climbed behind the Arabian chain the mist was torn into great shreds of filmy gauze..."

1851: spring: entranced by Murillo's Virgin in Corsini Gallery [pic?] [more?]

1857-1862: writing Salammbo
1858: 12Apr-Jun: scouts locations in North Africa

1880: 08May: dies suddenly of stroke [deathmask]

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