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He was in poor health for much of his childhood and was not expected to live to adulthood. Flaubert's younger sister Caroline also was often ill, and she finally died in childbirth at age twenty-one. Despite her early death, she greatly affected Flaubert and was a strong feminine influence on him, while his older brother Achille was nine years his senior and the brothers never developed a friendship.

At age three, Flaubert began to be cared for by Julie, a servant hired by his parents, who stayed with the family until her death in and actually outlived all the Flaubert children. After performing poorly in home schooling lessons taught by his mother, nine-year-old Flaubert was placed in the College Royal de Rouen, a strict, militaristic school.

He vividly describes his life at the College Royal in his Memoirs d'un Fou , his only autobiographical work. In Flaubert began to study law, but he did not dedicate himself to the work and left the law school in due to illness.

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At this time Flaubert was diagnosed with epilepsy, with which he struggled for the remainder of his life. At a very young age Flaubert began to compose historical works of literature. In fact, his most renowned play, Loys XI , was written when he was fourteen. As he grew older, Flaubert grew more philosophical in his work and began to develop more direct commentary on social injustices while learning more about the class conflicts that raged within French society.

One such learning experience occurred in , when the young Flaubert attended a fancy ball given by the rich Marquis de Pomereu, an event that inspired his description of the ball that Emma and Charles attend in his novel Madame Bovary. Flaubert's father died in January , and nine weeks later his sister Caroline died in childbirth.

Upon their deaths, Flaubert received a sizable inheritance, which he used to retire to the family estate at Croisset. There he focused purely on his writing. Flaubert commissioned an artist to sculpt a bust of his sister Caroline, and when he arrived at the artist's studio, he met Louise Colet, a well-known poet and a great beauty, who was posing for the sculptor.