On this day in ...... 1857, the Sixth Correctional Chamber in Paris summoned Gustave Flaubert, his publisher, and his printer to stand trial on a charge of an "outrage á la morale publique et réligieuse et aux bonnes mœurs /affront to decent comportement and religious morality" for having produced Madame Bovary, a work of fiction about the adulterous wife of a physician. An acquittal would follow.
(Prior January 24 posts are here, here, and here.)
