Gustave Flaubert returns to the gueuloir
By Eric Biétry-Rivierre
In this year of the bicentenary of his birth, as Father Hugo urged him, Flaubert continues to hold high the torch of art.
Three stages are planned for a “Salammbô” exhibition long dreamed of by Sylvain Amic, director of the Rouen Normandie Metropolitan Museums.
Subtitled “Passion!
Fury!
Elephants! ”, It should display its golds and exoticism from April 23 to September 19 at the city's Museum of Fine Arts.
This city which saw the birth of the writer and which Emma Bovary traveled in a carriage and in very gallant company ...
Then, from October 20 to February 7, 2022, she will stop in Marseille (Mucem) before approaching even closer to the mythical Carthage, reaching Tunisia, because we plan to install her 250 works, objects, images, from French and European public and private collections, in the sumptuous Bardo National Museum.
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In the meantime, from the Côte d'Albâtre to the Seine, passing through the Cauchoise or Brayonne countryside
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