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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Flaubert, Gustave

Flaubert, Gustave
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Madame Bovary: Part 1

Part One, Chapter One

The story begins in a boy's school in Rouen, a city in northern France,
around 1830. The narrator, who had been one of the students, recalls the
sensation created by the introduction of Charles Bovary into his classroom.
A clumsy, overgrown country boy of fifteen, dressed in ill-fitting clothing,
Bovary is particularly encumbered by his new, going-to-school cap, described
as a weird composite of the "bearskin, lancer's cap, bowler, nightcap, and
otterskin." After fumbling with this article and having it ...

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