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Described by a contemporary as ‘a truly enlightened physician, dedicated to and worthy of the lofty mission which he pursues in the world’, Achille-Cleophas Flaubert (1784–1846) survived Robespierre and the Terror and thrived under Napoleon. Writing the biography of the man, Geoffrey Wall also tells the story of a generation who had ‘grown up as the citizens of a republic that mutated into an empire’.