It was a novel called Madame Bovary.The story of an adulterous housewife called Emma, Madame Bovary, is a vital staging post in the development of realism. Flaubert’s work had been declared “an affront to decent comportment and religious morality”. Pinard was no grumbling hack, he was the imperial prosecutor of France, and facing him across the courtroom was the writer Gustave Flaubert. To impose the one rule of public decency on art is not to subjugate it but to honour it”. In January 1857 a man called Ernest Pinard stood up in a crowded courtroom and declared, “Art that observes no rule is no longer art it is like a woman who disrobes completely. Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the literary sensation caused by Gustave Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary.
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