Tomorrow - December 12th - is the anniversary of the birth of the novelist
Gustave Flaubert who was born in the French city of Rouen in 1821.
The son of a senior surgeon, Flaubert began writing
On this day in 1856 the first part of
Madame Bovary was published in the
Revue de Paris, a French literary magazine.
The novel, about the romantic illusions of a country doctor's wife and her adulterous affairs, scandalized French
