The protagonist of one of this author's novels picks up a discarded bouquet and hands it to his crush, whom he later spurns for her husband's mistress Rosanette. An unfinished novel of his concerns two characters that meet on a park bench and realize they are alike in every 
The protagonist of one of this author's novels picks up a discarded bouquet and hands it to his crush, whom he later spurns for her husband's mistress Rosanette. An unfinished novel of his concerns two characters that meet on a park bench and realize they are alike in every manner except for appearance. He wrote about a Hospitaller who kills his parents and ascends to heaven with a leper, and about the death of John the Baptist from Herod's point of view; those two stories form the Three Tales along with a story about an orphaned farm-girl who loves her (*) parrot Loulou. This author of Bouvard and Pecuchet and "A Simple Heart" wrote about the university student Frederic Moreau in one novel and about the hapless surgeon Charles in another. The latter features the title character's affairs with Leon and Rodolphe. For 10 points, name this French author of Sentimental Education and Madame Bovary.
The protagonist of one of this author's novels picks up a discarded bouquet and hands it to his crush, whom he later spurns for her husband's mistress Rosanette.
Gustave {Flaubert}