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Félicité is a French maid, who is devoted to helping her mistress and her two children navigate their new life following her husband's untimely death. Despite her lack of formal skills, Félicité is an endearing figure who brings warmth and stability into their lives.
In nineteenth-century France, Félicité works as a loyal housemaid to her mistress, Madame Aubain. She tends to her two children and is a constant source of support for the family....
3) Herodias
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Herodias holds a huge birthday celebration for her second husband, Herod Antipas. Unknown to him, she has concocted a plan to behead John. According to Flaubert, this plan entails making her husband fall in love with her daughter, Salome, leading to him promising her whatever she wants.
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A servant girl named Felicite. After her one and only love Theodore purportedly marries a well-to-do woman to avoid conscription, Felicite quits the farm where she works and heads to another location, where she picks up work in a widow's house as a servant. Despite her life being seemingly pointless, she has within her the power to love. She also carries within her a yearning, a majestic quasi-religious sensibility.
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Une édition de référence de Madame Bovary de Gustave Flaubert, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
« Emma ressemblait à toutes les maîtresses ; et le charme de la nouveauté, peu à peu tombant comme un vêtement, laissait voir à nu l'éternelle monotonie de la passion, qui a toujours les mêmes formes et le même langage. Il ne distinguait pas, cet homme si plein de pratique, la dissemblance des sentiments...
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Par un chaud dimanche d'été, près du bassin du port de l'Arsenal, sur le boulevard Bourdon, à Paris, deux promeneurs, Bouvard et Pécuchet, se rencontrent par hasard sur un banc public et font connaissance. Ils s'aperçoivent qu'ils ont eu tous deux l'idée d'écrire leur nom dans leur chapeau : « Alors ils se considérèrent. ». Tombés sous le charme l'un de l'autre, Bouvard et Pécuchet découvrent que non seulement ils exercent le même...
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