Flaubert in Madame Bovary

The reign of King Louis-Philippe of France during the mid-eighteen hundreds was a period of chaos and class-shifting struggle. The members of the French bourgeois were fighting for their freedom and the right to live under the governing of a republic. Industrial revolution was also occurring in France, shifting the majority of available jobs to urban centers. The result of that shift was the formation of a large rift between the wealthy landowners and industrialists …

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