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Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert was a nineteenth-century French novelist, best known for Madame Bovary. His historical novel Salammbô is set in Carthage during the Mercenary War of 241–238 BCE, when unpaid veterans of the First Punic War turned on Carthage. The site mentions him in connection with this episode in the military history of the Punic Empire.

Gustave Flaubert
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Gustave Flaubert. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/gustave-flaubert
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The Epoch Institute. “Gustave Flaubert.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/gustave-flaubert.
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