Madame Bovary

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Literature · 1856 · Croisset, near Rouen · Europe

Impersonal precision of style; its 1857 obscenity trial ended in acquittal

Author

Gustave Flaubert

Style

Realism — Paint what you see: peasants, labourers and the provinces at the scale of history painting

Century

19th century

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