In the footsteps of Gustave Flaubert, two hundred years after his birth (Part 2)
Bust of Gustave Flaubert, exhibited at the Flaubert Museum in Rouen.
© Catherine Fruchon-Toussaint / RFI
By: Catherine Fruchon-Toussaint
1 min
In this bicentenary which celebrates the birth of Gustave Flaubert, second special program in Rouen with an interview with Yvan Leclerc, professor emeritus, in the birthplace of the author.
Then, report to the Rouen Museum to discover the exhibition “Salammbô, Fury!
Passion!
Éléphants ”with Sylvain Amic, chief curator, director of RMM, Rouen Normandie.
(Replay)
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Gustave Flaubert album © NRF
The life and work of Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) with a very rich iconography in the
collection of the Pléiade.
An album designed and written by
Yvan Leclerc
, specialist of the French writer and in particular of his correspondence, director of the Flaubert Center of the CÉRÉdI laboratory (Center for studies and research to edit / interpret) and responsible for the Flaubert1 site, including a Review Annual Flaubert and an Information Bulletin.
Alfons Mucha, Salammbô, 1897 © Rouen, heritage library
"2021 marks the bicentenary of the birth of Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880). The opportunity for the RMM to deploy a vast program of celebrations! From April 23 to September 19, 2021, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen presents Salammbô, an exhibition inspired by the eponymous novel, published in 1862. Fury, passion, desire, betrayals and… elephants cross this brilliant epic which makes us travel in Punic land, three centuries before J. - C. "
(Presentation of the
Museum of Fine Arts
of Rouen).
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