Sentimental Education

Synopsis

One of the great french novels of the 19th centurybased on flaubert's own youthful passion for an older woman, sentimental education was described by its author as "the moral history of the men of my generation. " it follows the amorous adventures of frederic moreau, a law student who, returning home to normandy from paris, notices mme arnoux, a slender, dark woman several years older than himself. It is the beginning of an infatuation that will last a lifetime.