Round 13: 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 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 (10[1])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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