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Three Tales : A Simple Heart, Saint Julian the Hospitalier and Herodias: Classic of French Literature, Paperback / softback Book

Three Tales : A Simple Heart, Saint Julian the Hospitalier and Herodias: Classic of French Literature Paperback / softback

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"A Simple Heart" is a story about a servant girl named Felicite.

After her one and only love Theodore purportedly marries a well-to-do woman to avoid conscription, Felicite quits the farm where she works and heads for Pont-l'Eveque, where she picks up work in a widow's house as a servant.

It was inspired by several events in Flaubert's own life: he also lived in a farmhouse in rural Normandy, he also was adrift in his studies, much like Paul.

Most importantly, he suffered an epileptic fit in the same way that Felicite does in the story. "The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitalier" is a story about Julian the Hospitaller.

He is predicted at birth to do great things. His father is told that he will marry into the family of a great emperor, while his mother is told he will be a saint.

It was inspired by a large stained glass window at Rouen Cathedral.

Flaubert deliberately made his story markedly different from the story told in glass. "Herodias" is the retelling of the beheading of John the Baptist.

It starts slightly before the arrival of the Syrian governor, Vitellius.

Herodias holds a huge birthday celebration for her second husband, Herod Antipas.

Unknown to him, she has concocted a plan to behead John.

It is based on the biblical figure of the same name.

Flaubert based the section on the dance of Salome from a bas-relief also at Rouen Cathedral, and his own experience watching a young female dancer while in Egypt.

Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) was an influential French writer who was perhaps the leading exponent of literary realism of his country.

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