In 1847, Flaubert was not yet the author of
Madame Bovary
.
He is 25 years old, dreams of the Levant and Asia, but only knows the Pyrenees and Italy in the world, which he crossed with his parents.
His great friend Maxime Du Camp, on his way back from Constantinople, has seen Ephesus and Algeria.
He has sand all over his shoes.
He wants to leave and launches the idea of a road trip in Brittany.
The land of iodine is all the rage.
It has already attracted Balzac, Hugo and Stendhal.
Why not them?
Pipe in their mouths, irony and carelessness in their pockets, they are off on a three-month wandering.
From this treacherous escape will be born a book written with four hands:
By the fields and by the strikes
.
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A little less than two centuries later, Thierry Dussard decided to follow in their footsteps with his artist wife.
But can we call it a choice?
Rather a call from heaven.
The year before his departure, Flaubert lost his father and then his sister.
In 2019, Dussard must mourn his mother and then his sister.
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