The Enlightened Physician: Achille-Cléophas Flaubert, 1784-1846

by Geoffrey Wall

Geoffrey Wall's narrative biography of Achille-Cl ophas Flaubert, the father of the author of Madame Bovary, follows him from his birth in a French provincial town a few years before the Revolution through to his distinguished career as a physician in an industrial city. Growing up under the corrosive anguish of the Terror, he emerged as a talented schoolboy who read Voltaire and imbibed the radical materialism of the 1790s. As an aspiring...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1906165475
• ISBN13: 9781906165475
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.7" x 9.7"