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Monday December 27, 2021 – 7:20 a.m.
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How can we imagine that Flaubert could have read nearly 1,500 books to start writing Bouvard and Pécuchet? Flaubert was a monster of work and for those who still doubt it after all this year devoted to his 200th birthday, the exhibition of the heritage library Villon comes to prove it.
And it is exceptional. It is indeed a long time since the two manuscripts (Madame Bovary and Bouvard and Pécuchet) were not presented to the public. But it is in these manuscripts that we discover the master’s frenetic search to find the right word, the right turn … Ten hours a day; so many hours of erasures …
Useful information
Flaubert exhibition The making of the work
Until March 12, 2022
Villon heritage library
Guided tours : Saturday January 8 and 22 at 11 a.m.
Calligraphy workshops : Write with a quill pen in the style of Flaubert with Edwige Timmerman, calligrapher: Saturday January 29 at 2:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.
More info on the libraries website
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