Foreign Book: French Paperback Gustave Flaubert L'Éducation sentimentale French Edition "Sentimental Education" (French: L'Éducation sentimentale) is a novel by Gustave Flaubert. Set in Paris around the time of the February Revolution, it depicts the youth of Frédéric, a law student. In 1840, Frédéric Moreau, eighteen years old, meets M. Arnoux, a Parisian art dealer, and his wife on the steamer that takes him back home to Nogent-sur-Seine, and he immediately falls in love with her. Two months later, Frédéric must go to Paris to "study law," and promises himself to see again the young woman he cannot forget. The masterpiece of Gustave Flaubert where impossible love, art and politics are intertwined.