“The first assessment is astonishment given the quantity of events on offer. When we started, we thought we had about twenty proposals, we had 250. We examined them, 220 were selected in six hundred places in Normandy.“, begins Yvan Leclerc, president of the Scientific and Cultural Committee Flaubert 21 straight away. Gustave Flaubert would have been 200 years old this Sunday.
The bicentenary until June 2022
The Salammbô exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Rouen, Madame rêve en Bovary at the Château de Martainville, the events were numerous. And attracted people. “The public was there. In the idea, we wanted all audiences, young audiences, first-time readers of Flaubert, schoolchildren. We had many educational actions“, explains Yvan Leclerc.
“There is a big concentration of Flaubert this week. There will be big events. Flaubert is known and recognized. He didn’t hear us so that we could talk about him but make him accessible“, adds Yvan Leclerc. This Friday afternoon at 5 p.m., the inauguration of the great manuscript exhibition at the Villon heritage library in Rouen, the only manuscript exhibition in France. Sunday, the laying of the wreath on the tomb of Flaubert and his family.