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Madame Bovary — Flaubert’s novel, published in volume in 1857 after the 1856 serial
Five years of writing for the wife of a Norman health officer who dies of her reading and her debts. Published as a serial under the Second Empire, the novel earned its author a prosecution for offending public morals; it was afterwards held to be Realism’s birth certificate. (Editorial synthesis)
Madame Bovary was published in 1857. (source: Larousse)
Madame Bovary was published in Paris. (source: BnF)
Recorded author of Madame Bovary: Gustave Flaubert.
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