At the age of 16, he wrote the manuscript "Memoirs of a Mad Man," which related his passion for Elisa Schlesinger, a passion he would finally reveal to her 35 years later.  
At the age of 16, he wrote the manuscript "Memoirs of a Mad Man," which related his passion for Elisa Schlesinger, a passion he would finally reveal to her 35 years later.  Elisa became the model for his character Marie Arnoux, who is lusted after by Frederic Moreau in a novel set around the Revolution of 1848.  For 10 points, name this French author of The Sentimental Education who is more famous of his Madame Bovary.
At the age of 16, he wrote the manuscript "Memoirs of a Mad Man," which related his passion for Elisa Schlesinger, a passion he would finally reveal to her 35 years later.  
Gustave Flaubert