Rouen
- 2008
Mourir sur Seine
A sailor is stabbed on the quays as the tall ships of the Armada fill the river.
- 1984
Flaubert’s ParrotLe Perroquet de Flaubert
A retired English doctor in Rouen, hunting the stuffed parrot Flaubert kept on his desk.
- 1880
Boule de SuifBoule de suif
1870: a coach leaves occupied Rouen with nuns, notables and one generous prostitute.
- 1857
Madame Bovary
A country doctor’s wife in provincial Normandy dreams of romance, and ruins herself.