Yesterday morning I was reading my book about the life and times of Camille Pissaro.  The author was describing the newspapers that were read by the local Parisians.  He talked about how Camille was deeply moved by the serial chapters of a story published in the Paris Revue by the author Gustave Flaubert. Flaubert was arrested and tried on the grounds of 'violating public morality' for his novel, "Madame Bovary".  When I read this I thought,  " What kind of story could get an author arrested ...
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