Gustave Flaubert · 1856
A 19th-century French novel detailing a country doctor's wife who engages in extramarital affairs and spends beyond her means to escape provincial boredom.
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“reading about them kind of remind me of 19th century novels that always feature these kind of things, Madame Bovary or something like that, where there are small scale tragedies…”
Tom Holland, Host on The Rest Is HistoryThe Terror: The Reign of Robespierre (Part 2)
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