Question: Which French novelist was defended by Antoine Marie Jules Sénard  a French lawyer and Politician in an action against his debut novel "Madame Bovary" ?

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Madame Bovary (1991 film): Madame Bovary is a 1991 French film directed by Claude Chabrol and based on the novel "Madame Bovary" by the 19th century French author Gustave Flaubert.  It was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film as well as for the Academy Award for Costume Design.  It was also entered into the 17th Moscow International Film Festival where Isabelle Huppert won the award for Best Actress.

Madame Bovary (1947 film): Madame Bovary is a 1947 Argentine historical drama film directed by Carlos Schlieper and starring Mecha Ortiz, Roberto Escalada and Enrique Diosdado.  It is an adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's 1857 novel "Madame Bovary".

Madame Bovary (1934 film): Madame Bovary is a 1934 French historical drama film directed by Jean Renoir, starring Max Dearly, Valentine Tessier and Pierre Renoir, and adapted from Gustave Flaubert's 1857 novel "Madame Bovary".

Antoine Sénard: Antoine Marie Jules Sénard (9 April 1800 – 29 October 1885) was a French lawyer and politician who was briefly President of the Constituent Assembly of the French Second Republic.  After returning to private practice during the Second French Empire he successfully defended Gustave Flaubert in an action against his "Madame Bovary",

Madame Bovary (1937 film): Madame Bovary is a 1937 German historical drama film directed by Gerhard Lamprecht and starring Pola Negri, Aribert Wäscher and Ferdinand Marian.  It is an adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's 1857 novel "Madame Bovary".

Madame Bovary (1969 film): Madame Bovary (Italian: "I peccati di Madame Bovary" / "The Sins of Madame Bovary", German: "Die nackte Bovary" ) is a 1969 Italian-West German historical drama film directed by Hans Schott-Schöbinger and starring Edwige Fenech, Gerhard Riedmann and Franco Ressel.  It is based on Gustave Flaubert's novel "Madame Bovary", although the film cuts out the book's portrayal of her early life and focuses more heavily on her sexual relationships.

Madame Bovary (opera): Madame Bovary is an opera by Emmanuel Bondeville premiered at the Opéra-Comique on 1 June 1951 in a production by Louis Musy, conducted by Albert Wolff, with Jacqueline Brumaire in the title role The opera is based upon the novel Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert.

Madame Bovary: Madame Bovary is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856.  The story focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life.

The Perpetual Orgy: The Perpetual Orgy: Flaubert and Madame Bovary (Spanish: "La orgía perpetua.  Flaubert y Madame Bovary" , 1975) is a book-length essay by the Nobel Prize–winning Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa which examines Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" as the first modern novel.  The first part of the book has an autobiographical tone; Vargas Llosa then goes on to examine the structure and meaning of "Madame Bovary" as well as its role in the development of the modern novel.  First published in Spanish in 1975, the book was translated into English in 1986 by Helen Lane.

Gustave Flaubert: Gustave Flaubert (] ; 12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880) was a French novelist.  Highly influential, he has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country.  He is known especially for his debut novel "Madame Bovary" (1857), his "Correspondence", and his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics.  The celebrated short story writer Guy de Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert.

Supporting paragraphs: Antoine Sénard Gustave Flaubert
Answer: Gustave Flaubert