Sentimental Education
Gustave Flaubert's great novels "Madame Bovary" (1857)—which reveals the tragic consequences of romanticism on the wife of a provincial doctor—and "Sentimental Education" represent perhaps the highest stages in the development of French realism, while Flaubert's romanticism is apparent in his fantastic "The Temptation of Saint Anthony" and the baroque and exotic scenes of ancient Carthage in "Salammbô".