Ry is banking on Flaubert to become the favorite village of the French. In Ry (Seine-Maritime), general mobilization has been decreed since Stéphane Bern's broadcast proposed to this municipality 800 inhabitants.
It is there, about twenty kilometers north of Rouen, that the heroine would find her origins, even if the author chose to have her stay in Yonville-l'Abbaye, a fictional commune on the banks of the of the Rieule, an imaginary tributary of the Andelle.