All this time, Flaubert carefully worked on the text of the novel, originally having a thousand pages and truncated to four hundred. At the same time, Flaubert always emphasized that his novel is far from a documentary retelling of real history and the times even said that Madame Bovary does not have a prototype, and if there is, then he is the writer himself.įive years have passed from the moment the concept was born and until the publication of the work. His second wife, Delphine Couturier, languishing from bourgeois boredom, spending all her money on expensive outfits and lovers and committing suicide, formed the basis of the artistic image of Emma Rouault / Bovary.
Eugene Delamard – a mediocre doctor from a remote French province, married in the beginning to a widow, and then to a young girl – became the prototype of Charles Bovary. The novel “Madame Bovary” was based on the real story of the Delamar family, told to Flaubert by a friend – the poet and playwright Louis Buile.
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