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8 unusual facts about Madame Bovary


From These Roots

It was also known for a storyline dealing with the show-within-a-show performance of Madame Bovary, which heavily featured the show's villainess, Lynn Franklin.

Guillaume Dupuytren

Dupuytren's success at draining a cerebral abscess is referred to in Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary: "not Dupuytren, about to open up an abscess through a thick encephalic layer" (Part Two, Chapter 11).

Ludwig Marcuse

The work revolves around leading obscenity trials: Friedrich Schlegel's Lucinde (Jena, 1799), Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (Paris, 1857), Arthur Schnitzler's Round Dance (Berlin, 1920), D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley (London, 1960), and Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer (Los Angeles, 1962).

Mattia Sbragia

He is also a noted theater director who has staged successful Roman productions of Madame Bovary, Padrone Del Mondo, La Poltrona, and Ore Rubate.

O Cortiço

It is written with the intention of belonging to the Realism movement leaning towards Naturalism, much like Flaubert's Madame Bovary.

Pulvermacher's chain

For instance, there are references to it in the novel Madame Bovary when the character Homais wearing a number of Pulvermacher chains is described as "more bandaged than a Scythian".

Ry, Seine-Maritime

The village of Yonville in Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary is traditionally held to have been based on Ry.

Tôtes

It is famous for being the first home of Charles and Emma Bovary in Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary.


Francisco Urondo

Urondo also collaborated in the writing of movie scripts such as Pajarito Gómez (which includes a cameo appearance) and Noche terrible, and adapted for television Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Stendhal's Le Rouge et le Noir, and Eça de Queiroz's Os Maias.

Women in the Victorian era

Adulteresses met tragic ends in novels such as Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Madame Bovary by Flaubert, while in Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy depicts a heroine punished by her community for losing her virginity before marriage (the novel is deliberately ambiguous as to whether the encounter was consensual of a rape).


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Michel Dens

His roles at the Opéra-Comique included; Figaro, Lescaut, Zurga, Frédéric, Ourrias, Dapertutto, Alfio, Marcello, Scarpia, et al., he took part there in the creation of Emmanuel Bondeville's Madame Bovary, on 1 June 1951.