Madame Bovary follows a doctor\'s wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life.
After Flaubert\'s acquittal on February 7.
The resulting trial in January 1857 made the story notorious.
When Madame Bovary was first published, public prosecutors attacked the novel for obscenity.
Emma increasingly gives in to her every desire, becoming a selfish, sensual and self-centred woman with destructive tendencies.
Madame Bovary follows a doctor\'s wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life