Preface

The time and the place

"Oh! to write"

To love

A change of direction

Death on the horizon

Louise

1848

A longing for the Orient

From the Pyramids to the Sublime Porte

Louise (last and final)

Emma

Fame

Life in Paris

Salammbo

Caroline's marriage

The hermit in white gloves

Monseigneur

Frederic is not me

Frederic is us

Cold shower

George Sand and the old troubadour

War!

The Paris Commune

"The being i loved most"

The ups and downs of melancholy

Financial ruin and bereavement

"Blue sky ahead!"

"Everything infuriates and weighs upon me"

Post mortem

Sketches for a portrait

Chronology

A compendium of Flaubert quotations

A critical anthology.