Thick mustaches, dressed in a small waistcoat and a jacket, he sits at the end of the bustling quay on Wednesday morning, market day. Proud and handsome, the Norman writer remains unmoved in front of the many passers-by during this period of school holidays. The statue of Flaubert is part of the landscape of Trouville-sur-Mer.
« His strongest sentimental and aesthetic emotions were found in »: The sentence, inscribed in golden letters on the commemorative plaque, gives the beginning of an explanation to this somewhat faded presence.
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