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Title: Madame Bovary, v. 2
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Flaubert, Gustave
Subjects: Bibliotheque des chefs-d'oeuvre du roman contemporain: Realists (and) Romancists French fiction--19th century--Translations into English Limited Editions French fiction
Publisher: Philadelpha: Printed for subscribers only by G. Barrie
Contributing Library: Susquehanna University, Blough-Weis Library
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es place. Monsieur Bovary is at his wifesfeet, he is the most happy of men, the blindest of hus-bands; his sole thought is to anticipate his wifesdesires. Here the part of Monsieur Bovary disappears; thatof Madame Bovary becomes the serious work of thebook. Messieurs, has Madame Bovary loved her husbandor sought to love him ? No, and at the commencementthere takes place that which might be called the sceneof initiation. Dating from this moment, another hori-zon opens before her, a new life appears to her. The ^m 5ri)irtr OTijapter Xi: One day, finally, he sat down before it, turned the keyand pushed the spring. All Leons letters were thendiscovered. This time there was no more doubt! Hedevoured them all to the last one, searched in all thecorners, all the furniture, all the drawers, behind thetualls, sobbing, groaning, bewildered, crazy. He dis-covered a box, broke it open with a blow of his foot.Rodolphe sportrait appeared in plain sight, in the midstof the billets doux thrown about.
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ACCUSATION 193 proprietor of the chateau de la Vaubyessard had givena grand fete. The ofificier de sante had been invited,his wife had been invited, and there she had had, asit were, an initiation into all the ardors of volup-tuousness ! She had seen the Due de Laverdiere, whohad had successes at Court; she had waltzed with avicomte and experienced an unknown trouble. Fromthis moment she lived a new life; her husband, every-thing which surrounded her, became insupportable toher. One day, in searching in a piece of furnitureshe came across a bit of wire which tore her finger;it was the wire of her marriage bouquet. To endeavorto draw her from the ennui which consumed her, Mon-sieur Bovary sacrificed his practice and went to settleat Yonville. It is here that appears the scene of thefirst fall from virtue. We are in the second numberof the publication. Madame Bovary arrives at Yon-ville, and there, the first person whom she meets, uponwhom she fixes her regards, it is not the notary of

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