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Wednesday, February 21--"La Bretagne chez les grands ecrivains du XIX siecle. Michelet, Flaubert, Taine, Loti...
Daudet's first success, "Risler aine," shows the influence of Flaubert. In the "Nabab" and in "Les Rois en exil," not the customs of France, but the life of a cosmopolitan public is depicted. It is in "Numa Roumestan," in the "Tartarius," and especially in his marvelous short stories that we get a picture of life and manners in Southern France...
...Roux delivered his second lecture in Sanders Theatre yesterday, on "Flaubert, comme Peintre de la France du Nord...
...Roux began by recounting a visit he made as a child to Gustave Flaubert, when he was received in such an encouraging way as to cause him to decide at once on a literary career...
...Flaubert, in what is perhaps his best known novel, "Madame Bovary" studies the problems arising in the second half of the nineteenth century from this mingling of classes. His conclusion is that the effects of too rapid culture on the middle class French woman are pernicious. In this M. Le Roux agrees with him; for, with an ancient race, every-day education must always precede instruction in less tangible matters. Flaubert treats the subject firmly but reverently; his host of imitators, however, have cheapened his art, lost the depth and retained only the sentimental and superficial...