Flaubert, Gustave Syllabification: (Flau·bert, Gustave)Pronunciation: /flōˈber/Definition of Flaubert, Gustave (1821–80), French novelist and short-story writer. A dominant figure in the French realist school, he is noted for Madame Bovary (1857), his first published novel. Flaubert, Gustave in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of Flaubert, Gustave in the British & World English dictionary