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Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Holly Fry.

And I'm Tracy V. Wilson.

So while I was working on research for our recent episode on Teofield-Steinland,

I was reminded while I was looking at the history of French censorship of the trial of Gustav LeBerbe during the French Second Empire regarding his novel, Madame Bovary.

And I have rather fond memories of studying that book. I have feelings about it. We'll talk about them on Friday. Madame Bovary, as we'll say, because it's a little easier than saying the

French accent every time, is today considered a classic, and it's, you know, pretty tame in nature.

But when it was written in the 1850s, not considered tame,

it fell under the accusing eye of the French government for its sexual content.

So for today, first we're going to talk a bit about Gustav Leubert himself and then bring his life story to the point where he found himself on trial for writing a book that was accused of being immoral.

That was really pretty early in his career as a writer. And then we'll talk a little bit about the effects of the trial and his life after it. I feel like I should say this is, for someone like me that's read a lot about Gustav LeBeer, this feels very much not comprehensive. I'm like, oh, I love so much out, even so it's a little bit longish. So just know, if you are a Flaubert scholar,

you're going to be like, you left so much out. And I'm going to be like, I know, baby, I know.

That's what's up. So Gustave Flaubert was born December 12th, 1821, in Rueux, France. His father,

Achille Cleofa Flaubert, was a surgeon.

His mother and Justine Caroline Floreo was from a family that could trace its roots back hundreds of years in the history of Normandy.

Dr. Flaubert accumulated wealth and property, but throughout his career, he remained dedicated to caring for ruins, poor, and indigent.

He was known as an outgoing man who excelled as a teacher to the students at Hotel Diu, where he was the head of surgery.

The flow bears also accumulated a lot of wealth through real estate.

Aquilofa purchased land whenever he could, and then he rented that land out for farming.

Yeah, he really was much wealthier than a doctor in his particular role would normally be because he was very smart about investing.

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