All 6 Uses

anecdote
in
Madame Bovary
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When, in the evening, Charles told her this anecdote, Emma inveighed loudly against his colleague.†
Chpt 1.9 *

anecdote = a short story that is true -- often told for amusement or to make a point
Sometimes, too, she told him of what she had read, such as a passage in a novel, of a new play, or an anecdote of the "upper ten" that she had seen in a feuilleton; for, after all, Charles was something, an ever-open ear, and ever-ready approbation.†
Chpt 1.9
He was telling anecdotes, giving information; the fortune of the notary was not known exactly, and "there was the Tuvache household," who made a good deal of show.†
Chpt 2.2

anecdotes = short, true stories
He chatted with the landlady; and even told anecdotes interspersed with jokes and puns that Hippolyte did not understand.†
Chpt 2.11
He cited various anecdotes about thieves who had suddenly become honest.†
Chpt 3.9
Then Homais invented anecdotes— "Yesterday, by the Bois-Guillaume hill, a skittish horse—" And then followed the story of an accident caused by the presence of the blind man.†
Chpt 3.11

Definitions:

(1) (anecdote)
a short story that is true -- often told for amusement or to make a point
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)