Round 14: Tossup 15

A character in this novel dies hearing a beggar with infected eyelids sing about a woman whose "petticoat has flown away.”A character who receives the Legion of Honor in the final sentence (10[1])of this novel pressures his friend into an experimental treatment on Hippolyte’s clubfoot. The protagonist of this novel almost defenestrates herself after receiving a break-up letter in a basket of apricots. The pharmacist Homais appears in this novel, in which letters revealing affairs with Rodolphe Boulanger and Léon Dupuis are discovered shortly after a character’s suicide by arsenic. For 10 points, name this novel about the affairs of Charles’s wife Emma, written by Gustave Flaubert. ■END■

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