Early in this novel, it is revealed that much of Heloise Dubec's wealth had been stolen by her lawyer. While in Yonville, the title character gives birth to Berthe and meets the merchant Lhereux, who 
Early in this novel, it is revealed that much of Heloise Dubec's wealth had been stolen by her lawyer. While in Yonville, the title character gives birth to Berthe and meets the merchant Lhereux, who sells her many items on credit. In this novel, the law clerk (*) Léon helps the protagonist gain access to her husband Charles's estate, and their romance begins soon after the conclusion of her three-year affair with Rodolphe. Ending with the title character's suicide by ingesting arsenic is, for ten points, what novel by Gustave Flaubert?
Early in this novel, it is revealed that much of Heloise Dubec's wealth had been stolen by her lawyer.