Symbols

La Vaubyessard The Marquis d'Andervilliers's château and the ball that Emma Bovary and Charles Bovary attend in chapter 8 of Part I, invited through an almost comic chance: cherries from the Tostes garden. The scene in chapter 8 of Part I changes the novel's axis, and the... Yonville The village to which Charles Bovary moves the family at the end of Part I, as a remedy for an ailment of Emma Bovary's that he does not understand. It sits on the border between Normandy, Picardy and Ile-de-France, and is the stage of Part II and of the... The Green Cigar Case A cigar case edged in green silk, with a coat of arms in the center, which Charles Bovary finds fallen on the road, between the horse's legs, on the return from the ball at La Vaubyessard. Emma Bovary throws it to the back of the cupboard and keeps it. The... The Cab The closed-curtain carriage in which Emma Bovary and Léon spend hours crossing Rouen and its outskirts without destination, in Part III, Chapter 1. The cab appears only in that scene.