Based on Flaubert's own youthful passion for an older woman, Sentimental Education was described by its author as "the moral history of the men of my generation." It follows the amorous adventures of Frederic Moreau, a law student who, returning home to Normandy from Paris, notices Mme Arnoux, a slender, dark woman several years older than himself. It is the beginning of an infatuation that will last a lifetime. He befriends her husband, an influential businessman, and as their paths cross and re-cross over the years, Mme Arnoux remains the constant, unattainable love of Moreau's life....

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An epic story of lust, cruelty, and sensuality, this historical novel is set in Carthage in the days following the First Punic War with Rome, during the 3rd century BC. Few French historical novels can stand comparison with Salammbo.

After the First Punic War, Carthage is unable to fulfill promises made to its army of mercenaries, and finds itself under attack. The fictional title character, a priestess and the daughter of Hamilcar Barca, the foremost Carthaginian general, is the object of the obsessive lust of Matho, a leader of the mercenaries. With...

Flaubert travailla une grande partie de sa vie a cet ouvrage qui demeure inacheve. En effet, il commence a mettre en forme ses aphorismes et les cliches de la societe francaise de son epoque a partir de 1850 a la suite d'une discussion tenue avec Louis Bouilhet. Il n'est cependant pas clairement etabli si Flaubert souhaitait publier ce recueil ou simplement l'adjoindre en appendice de son roman lui aussi inacheve Bouvard et Pecuchet. Le Dictionnaire des idees recues fut publie par Louis Conard de maniere posthume en 1913 apres le travail d'edition scientifique d'Etienne-Louis Ferrere. Il...