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Bouvard et Pécuchet details the adventures of two Parisian copy-clerks, François Denys Bartholomée Bouvard and Juste Romain Cyrille Pécuchet, of the same age and nearly identical temperament. They meet one hot summer day in 1838 by the canal Saint-Martin and form an instant, symbiotic friendship. When Bouvard inherits a sizable fortune, the ...
- Gustave Flaubert
- 1881
Bouvard et Pécuchet, illustration de Bernard Naudin, 1923. Par un chaud dimanche d'été, près du bassin du port de l'Arsenal, sur le boulevard Bourdon, à Paris, deux promeneurs, Bouvard et Pécuchet, se rencontrent par hasard sur un banc public et font connaissance. Ils s'aperçoivent qu'ils ont eu tous deux l'idée d'écrire leur nom dans ...
Apr 7, 2008 · Bouvard and Pécuchet exchanged glances: the same hope took possession of both; and, in spite of the heat, they remained standing a long time questioning the ecclesiastic, who sheltered himself from the sun under a blue cotton umbrella. The lower part of his face was rather heavy, and his nose was pointed.
Other articles where Bouvard and Pécuchet is discussed: Gustave Flaubert: Later years of Gustave Flaubert: The heroes of Bouvard et Pécuchet are two clerks who receive a legacy and retire to the country together. Not knowing how to use their leisure, they busy themselves with one abortive experiment after another and plunge successively into scientific farming, archaeology, chemistry, and ...
The second is Les dossiers de Bouvard et Pécuchet kept at the Bibliotèque Municipale de Rouen, a fascinating site of the files compiled during the preparation of the novel, organized by Stéphanie Dord-Crouslé of the Université de Lyon. And the third one, from the Bibliotèque Nationale de France, on the manuscripts of the novel.
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Nov 26, 2004 · Bouvard et Pécuchet Language: French: LoC Class: PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese: Subject: France -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction Subject: French fiction -- 19th century Subject: Middle class -- France -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction Subject
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Aug 27, 2008 · Résumé : "Roman de la médiocrité" selon son auteur, Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), "Bouvard et Pécuchet" est en fait une réjouissante comédie, où il se moque de son époque à travers les aventures de deux vieux amis qui, se lançant avec enthousiasme dans l'étude de la chimie ou de l'agriculture, de la religion ou de l'amour ...
