One of this author's novels ends with the protagonist bizarrely musing that his "happiest time" was a trip to a brothel run by a Turkish woman during which he froze up, was mocked by the prostitutes, and promptly fled in shame.
One of this author's novels ends with the protagonist bizarrely musing that his "happiest time" was a trip to a brothel run by a Turkish woman during which he froze up, was mocked by the prostitutes, and promptly fled in shame. Dussardier shouts "Vive la republique" as he is shot by Senecal in that novel by this author, which includes a masquerade ball at which a schoolmate of Deslauriers meets "La Marechale," a character named (*) Rosanette with whom he begins an affair after being frustrated in his pursuit of the married older woman Madame Arnoux. A knight is cursed for his enthusiasm for deer murder in one of his Three Tales, a collection that also includes "A Simple Heart." This creator of Frederic Moreau wrote of the pharmacist Homais, who supplies another protagonist with arsenic after her affairs with Leon and Rudolphe fail to make life in Yonville tolerable. For 10 points, name this author of A Sentimental Education who wrote of Charles's wife Emma in Madame Bovary.
One of this author's novels ends with the protagonist bizarrely musing that his "happiest time" was a trip to a brothel run by a Turkish woman during which he froze up, was mocked by the prostitutes, and promptly fled in shame.
Gustave Flaubert