Charles is immediately attracted to her, and visits his patient far more often than necessary, until Héloïse's jealousy puts a stop to the visits. She has a powerful yearning for luxury and romance inspired by reading popular novels. Emma is a beautiful, daintily dressed young woman who has received a "good education" in a convent. One day, Charles visits a local farm to set the owner's broken leg and meets his patient's daughter, Emma Rouault. He sets out to build a practice in the village of Tôtes. He marries the woman his mother has chosen for him, the unpleasant but supposedly rich widow Héloïse Dubuc. Charles struggles his way to a second-rate medical degree and becomes an Officier de santé in the Public Health Service. Charles Bovary is a shy, oddly dressed teenager arriving at a new school where his new classmates ridicule him. Madame Bovary takes place in provincial northern France, near the town of Rouen in Normandy. The British critic James Wood writes: "Flaubert established, for good or ill, what most readers think of as modern realist narration, and his influence is almost too familiar to be visible." A seminal work of literary realism, the novel is now considered Flaubert's masterpiece, and one of the most influential literary works in history. After Flaubert's acquittal on 7 February 1857, Madame Bovary became a bestseller in April 1857 when it was published in two volumes. The resulting trial in January 1857 made the story notorious. When the novel was first serialized in La Revue de Paris between 1 October 1856 and 15 December 1856, public prosecutors attacked the novel for obscenity. The titular character lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life. Mœurs de province) is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. Madame Bovary (full French title: Madame Bovary.
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