Reviewed by: Dictionnaire Gustave Flaubert éd. by Éric Le Calvez John T. Booker Le Calvez, Éric, éd. Dictionnaire Gustave Flaubert. Garnier, 2017. ISBN 978-2-406-06032-1. Pp. 1257. Anyone interested in Flaubert in some way—whether his life, his work, or more broadly his world and time—will be grateful to Le Calvez for taking on this daunting project and, with a team of sixteen other contributors, bringing it to fruition. With some 1300 entries, from "Abou Simbel" (site of Egyptian temples visited by Flaubert while working on Salammbô) to "Zola," the dictionary is sure to have something of interest for everyone. Following Le Calvez's brief introduction, a "Chronologie" (17–28) spanning the years of Flaubert's life amounts to a concise but substantive biography. Individual entries in the dictionary itself range in length from a brief paragraph or two—"Dackno," for example (the name of a dog given to Flaubert), or "Vitalis" (a Greek guide for Flaubert and Du Camp in 1851)—to several pages for each of the major novels and the correspondence. At the end of a typical entry, brief references provide documentation, and suggested links indicate entries of related interest. There are numerous entries for individuals, as one would expect: members of the Flaubert family; friends and associates ("Bouilhet," "Du Camp"); love interests ("Schlesinger," "Colet"); contemporary writers ("Baudelaire," "Sand") or artists ("Delacroix"); earlier authors admired by Flaubert ("Rabelais," "Cervantès"); later writers influenced by his own work, whether French ("Proust,""Sarraute") or of other nationalities ("Nabokov,""Vargas Llosa"). Names of fictional characters are included, whether major ("Félicité") or minor ("Lestiboudois"), as are place names, real ("Croisset") or fictional ("Yonville-L'Abbaye"). A certain number of entries document political events ("Révolution de 1848") or regimes ("Second Empire"), contemporary ideologies ("socialisme"), literary movements ("réalisme,""romantisme"), or particular literary moments, so to speak ("dîner Trapp"). Not surprisingly, given Le Calvez's own research interests, there are numerous entries associated with genetic criticism ("plan," "scénario,""version"), or with Flaubert's characteristic manner of working ("rature," "tâtonnement,""gueuloir"), or with narratological approaches ("autotextualité,""style indirect libre") that have often taken Flaubert's corpus as a point of departure. While the dictionary is obviously invaluable as a reference work, it will also be a source of pleasure for anyone who simply leafs through it casually, for there are unexpected entries that are sure to be intriguing: those for "et" or "on," for example, or for "çà et là." For those who know Flaubert's work well, certain entries are likely to entice an immediate, knowing smile: "affres du style," "bovarysme," "hénaurme," "troubadour." It seems delightfully ironic (and hence characteristically Flaubertian, after all) that [End Page 204] over the years Flaubert compiled his own Dictionnaire des idées reçues, in which the entry for "dictionnaire" was to read: "En rire—n'est fait que pour les ignorants" (10)—a conclusion that Le Calvez wryly disavows, needless to say. End material includes a substantial bibliography, even though it includes only works consulted or cited by contributors (and unfortunately very few references to the considerable body of excellent criticism on Flaubert written in English); principal editions of Flaubert's works, manuscripts, and correspondence; and a guide to internet resources. John T. Booker University of Kansas Copyright © 2019 American Association of Teachers of French