Madame Bovary (1856) is French writer Gustave Flaubert's first published vel. It focuses on a Emma Bovary, a doctor's wife, and her adulterous affairs which help her escape the boredom of provincial life. When it was published in La Revue de Paris in 1856, prosecutors attacked the vel for obscenity.
French writer Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880) was a novelist and leading exponent of literary realism in France. He is known for his first novel Madame Bovary (1857), his Correspondence, and his devotion to his style and aesthetics. Guy de Maupassant was a protege of Flaubert.