Heroine, jug and dreamer: Madame Bovary, is that us?
Born in 1857 from the pen of Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary is this year the heroine of the bicentenary of the birth of the writer. Romantic and tragic muse, inveterate dreamer, eternal dissatisfied, what if she looked more like us than we thought? – In a century and a half, its notoriety has only increased. … Read more