Madame Bovary, originally published as Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners, is a novel by French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856.
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18 Facts About Madame Bovary
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Charles Madame Bovary is a shy, oddly dressed teenager arriving at a new school where his new classmates ridicule him.
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Madame Bovary's has a powerful yearning for luxury and romance inspired by reading popular novels.
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Madame Bovary's becomes infatuated with Leon Dupuis, an intelligent young man she meets in Yonville.
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Madame Bovary invites her to go riding with him for the sake of her health.
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Madame Bovary's, consumed by her romantic fantasy, risks compromising herself with indiscreet letters and visits to her lover.
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Madame Bovary's remaining possessions are seized to pay off Lheureux.
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Madame Bovary dies, and his young daughter Berthe is placed with her grandmother, who soon dies.
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Madame Bovary's has a highly romanticized view of the world and craves beauty, wealth, passion, as well as high society.
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Charles Madame Bovary, Emma's husband, is a very simple and common man.
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Madame Bovary is a country doctor by profession but is, as in everything else, not very good at it.
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Madame Bovary is in fact not qualified enough to be termed a doctor, but is instead an officier de sante, or "health officer".
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Madame Bovary is outgoing and friendly, with a gift for remembering names and faces, and he is mostly called upon to perform first aid.
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Madame Bovary is vehemently anti-clerical and practises medicine without a licence.
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Madame Bovary had been taken into the house on charity and was useful at the same time as a servant.
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Madame Bovary has been seen as a commentary on the bourgeoisie, the folly of aspirations that can never be realized or a belief in the validity of a self-satisfied, deluded personal culture, associated with Flaubert's period, especially during the reign of Louis Philippe, when the middle class grew to become more identifiable in contrast to the working class and the nobility.
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Madame Bovary has had the following film and television adaptations:.
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