In 1857, Flaubert angered the guardians of good morals
Deemed outrageous, the writer’s first novel, “Madame Bovary”, earned him face to face with the judges. But it will escape censorship.
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![An illustrated scene from Madame Bovary: a screaming beadle, Emma and her lover Léon.](https://i0.wp.com/cdn.unitycms.io/images/553Hj0gKKjAA4wvFvpp5c3.jpg?resize=1318%2C2000&ssl=1)
An illustrated scene from Madame Bovary: a screaming beadle, Emma and her lover Léon.
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Three defendants appeared before the Criminal Court of the Seine on January 29, 1857: Léon Laurent-Pichat and Auguste-Alexis Pillet, respectively manager and printer of the “Revue de Paris”, as well as a young author still unknown, Gustave Flaubert. They are accused of “contempt of public and religious morality, or good morals” for having published, in two issues of the periodical, fragments of a novel entitled “Madame Bovary”.
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