A character in this novel sings about the wind snatching a young girl’s petticoat away while a woman experiences fatal convulsions. In this novel, a character’s confession of love is interspersed with a farmer receiving a prize in manure. A viscount in this novel dances with the protagonist at a ball, after which she picks up a cigar box that the viscount drops. In this novel, torn scraps of paper are thrown out of a (*) moving carriage where two characters have sex. A character in this novel who receives the Legion of Honor convinces another to perform an operation on the club-footed Hippolyte. The protagonist of this novel swallows arsenic when Monsieur Lheureux calls in her debt, after which her husband discovers her letters with Léon Dupuis and Rodolphe Boulanger. For 10 points, name this novel about the affairs of Charles’s wife Emma, written by Gustave Flaubert. ■END■
ANSWER: Madame Bovary [or Madame Bovary: Provincial Matters or Madame Bovary: Mœurs de province]
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