Léon despairs of gaining Emma's affection and departs for Paris to continue his studies.| Free Books: 100+ Love Books for Free! Concerned with maintaining her self-image as a devoted wife and mother, Emma does not acknowledge her passion for Léon and conceals her contempt for Charles, drawing comfort from the thought of her virtue.

Léon is a law student who shares Emma's appreciation for literature and music and returns her esteem. She becomes infatuated with Léon Dupuis, an intelligent young man she meets in Yonville. There, Emma gives birth to a daughter, Berthe, but motherhood proves a disappointment to Emma. Charles decides his wife needs a change of scenery and moves his practice to the larger market town of Yonville (traditionally identified with the town of Ry). After he and Emma attend an elegant ball given by the Marquis d'Andervilliers, Emma finds her married life dull and becomes listless. Charles means well but is plodding and clumsy. Her father gives his consent, and Emma and Charles marry. When Héloïse unexpectedly dies, Charles waits a decent interval before courting Emma in earnest. Charles is immediately attracted to her, and visits his patient far more often than necessary, until Héloïse's jealousy puts a stop to the visits. She has a powerful yearning for luxury and romance inspired by reading popular novels. Emma is a beautiful, poetically dressed young woman who has received a 'good education' in a convent.

One day, Charles visits a local farm to set the owner's broken leg and meets his patient's daughter, Emma Rouault. He sets out to build a practice in the village of Tôtes. He marries the woman his mother has chosen for him, the unpleasant but supposedly rich widow Héloïse Dubuc. He struggles his way to a second-rate medical degree, and becomes an Officier de santé in the Public Health Service. Charles Bovary is a shy, oddly dressed teenager arriving at a new school where his new classmates ridicule him. Madame Bovary takes place in provincial northern France, near the town of Rouen in Normandy.

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