For 10 points, name this French author of "A Simple Heart," whose protagonist's goodness is often contrasted with the wickedness of the adulterous doctor's wife who swallows arsenic in his best-known novel.
The protagonist of a story by this author goes on a hunt in which he is not only unable to wound any animals, but is also physically pushed back to his castle by a stampede of them. One of this author's characters dies by being bled too severely while being treated for yellow fever, which he contracts on his first long voyage as a sailor to Havana. At a feast organized for the gluttonous Aulus Vitellius, the title character of a story by this author asks her daughter to request the (*) head of Iaokanann. This author wrote "Hérodias" and "The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller," which are collected alongside his story in which Mme. Aubain's servant girl Felicité sees her pet parrot Loulou float above her deathbed. For 10 points, name this French author of "A Simple Heart," whose protagonist's goodness is often contrasted with the wickedness of the adulterous doctor's wife who swallows arsenic in his best-known novel.
The protagonist of a story by this author goes on a hunt in which he is not only unable to wound any animals, but is also physically pushed back to his castle by a stampede of them.
Gustave Flaubert