The window, in the provinces, replaces the theatre and promenades. From Flaubert's Madame Bovary, written from 1851 through 1856.
At right, a tidy new window to look out of an old Normandy house in Honfleur, a charming port town about 90 km from Rouen, birthplace of the French novelist.
Flaubert also said that anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough...
©2012 P.B. Lecron
