How did Gustave Flaubert’s financial troubles arise in his later years?

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Gustave Flaubert’s financial difficulties in his later years were not the result of his own mismanagement, but rather a selfless act of familial support. In 1875, his niece Caroline’s husband, Ernest Commanville, who worked as a timber importer, fell into severe debt. To save Commanville from bankruptcy, Flaubert sacrificed his own fortune.1