For 10 points, identify this author of Salammbo and Sentimental Education, a French realist who wrote Madame Bovary.
Jean-Paul Sartre claimed that this man was unloved as a child in his biography of this man, The Family Idiot, while Walter Pater dubbed him the "martyr of style". He used Polybius's Histories as the basis for a historical novel set during the Mercenary Wars that stars the daughter of Hamilcar Barca. The journalist Dussardier is killed by Senecal near the end of another of his novels, whose protagonist fights a duel with Cisy over his lover Rosanette and carries on a long platonic affair with the wife of Madame (*) Arnoux. The manipulative merchant Lhereux appears in his most famous novel, which sees Leon Dupuis and Rodolphe Boulanger carry on affairs with the title doctor's wife. For 10 points, identify this author of Salammbo and Sentimental Education, a French realist who wrote Madame Bovary.
Jean-Paul Sartre claimed that this man was unloved as a child in his biography of this man, The Family Idiot, while Walter Pater dubbed him the "martyr of style".
Gustave Flaubert