Marou House - Rouen
Exhibition of the Château de Martainville - Museum of Norman Arts and Traditions - outside the walls
A new exhibition, immersive and "outside the walls", which highlights selected scenes from "Madame Bovary", taking the visitor into the novel and into the spirit of Emma.
Madame Bovary, published in 1856, was inspired by a news item that occurred in a village eight leagues from Rouen. This powerful study of manners is strongly rooted in the territory of the Seine-Maritime region: the Pays de Caux, a village watered by a tributary of the Andelle River and the city of Rouen. The Château de Martainville is located only a few kilometers from the village of Ry, which is said to have inspired Flaubert to set the scene for Madame Bovary. The museum's collections are perfectly suited to highlighting scenes from Gustave Flaubert's work, in light of the collections of peasant interiors and an evocation of the Norman petty bourgeoisie that the author liked to describe.
A modern heroine, Emma Bovary shocked her contemporaries and marked several generations of readers. This fictional character has inspired artists, be they illustrators, musicians or filmmakers, and each of us imagines his own representation of Emma Bovary, from Isabelle Huppert to Mia Wasikowska. Gustave Flaubert's literary work Madame Bovary is part of a territory, that of Normandy and more particularly of the Seine-Maritime.
This is why the Museum of Norman Traditions and Arts, rich in its collections, presents outside the walls, the exhibition Madame Bovary Dreams in two emblematic places, the Maison Marrou (29, rue Verte in Rouen) and the Théâtre des Arts de Rouen. The innovative scenography of Jean Oddes takes the visitor on an immersive journey and a contemporary interpretation of Gustave Flaubert's work.
Open every day from 11am to 6pm