Practice question · True or false
Flaubert was prosecuted for obscenity over Madame Bovary and acquitted.
Hints
- The novel’s publication in 1857 was followed by a trial.
- He was acquitted, and the prosecution made the book famous.
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True
Why
True. He was prosecuted in 1857 and acquitted, and the trial did what such trials generally do, the publicity made the novel an immediate success. Baudelaire was prosecuted the same year over Les Fleurs du mal and was not so fortunate.
Practise Six Set Books: Candide to A Doll’s House
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