Journey into Flaubert's Normandy

Richly illustrated with maps, historical and contemporary photographs, and period artwork, this guidebook takes tourists and armchair travelers on a stimulating journey through the small towns, rolling hills, and windswept coast of Flaubert’s Normandy. The novelist’s homes and the locations that are prominently featured in his controversial works are the focus of this pictorial travel guide, and include the ancient town of Rouen, where Flaubert was born in 1821; the resort town of Trouville and its frequently painted beach; Croisset, where Flaubert’s riverside house gave him the refuge to write; and the quiet country town of Ry, which claims to be where the real Madame Bovary lived and died.
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Journey into Flaubert's Normandy

Richly illustrated with maps, historical and contemporary photographs, and period artwork, this guidebook takes tourists and armchair travelers on a stimulating journey through the small towns, rolling hills, and windswept coast of Flaubert’s Normandy. The novelist’s homes and the locations that are prominently featured in his controversial works are the focus of this pictorial travel guide, and include the ancient town of Rouen, where Flaubert was born in 1821; the resort town of Trouville and its frequently painted beach; Croisset, where Flaubert’s riverside house gave him the refuge to write; and the quiet country town of Ry, which claims to be where the real Madame Bovary lived and died.
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Journey into Flaubert's Normandy

Journey into Flaubert's Normandy

by Susannah Patton
Journey into Flaubert's Normandy

Journey into Flaubert's Normandy

by Susannah Patton

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Richly illustrated with maps, historical and contemporary photographs, and period artwork, this guidebook takes tourists and armchair travelers on a stimulating journey through the small towns, rolling hills, and windswept coast of Flaubert’s Normandy. The novelist’s homes and the locations that are prominently featured in his controversial works are the focus of this pictorial travel guide, and include the ancient town of Rouen, where Flaubert was born in 1821; the resort town of Trouville and its frequently painted beach; Croisset, where Flaubert’s riverside house gave him the refuge to write; and the quiet country town of Ry, which claims to be where the real Madame Bovary lived and died.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780976670681
Publisher: Roaring Forties Press
Publication date: 12/15/2006
Series: ArtPlace series
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 7.50(w) x 7.50(h) x 0.45(d)

About the Author


Susannah Patton has written for the Associated Press, the Boston Herald, the Dallas Morning News, Time magazine, and The Wall Street Journal. She lives in Albany, California.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments     vii
Gustave Flaubert: Normandy's Novelist     2
Rouen: Norman Capital     14
Trouville: Footprints in the Sand     42
The Hermit of Croisset     64
Ry and Lyons-la-Foret: The Land of Emma Bovary     82
Pont-l'Eveque: "Thus it is with all our dreams"     102
Timeline     121
Notes     124
For Further Reading     132
Index     134
Credits     142
About the Author     144
About the ArtPlace Series     145
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