1856 CE: GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, 35, COMPLETES MADAME BOVARY

France: His first – and greatest – novel (which would make it the greatest novel of a great novelist). A five-year endeavor to write, it was serialized in the Revue de Paris that year.

(b. December, 1821 Rouen, France; d. May, 1880 Rouen, France)