Delphine Delamare

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Veronique Delphine Delamare (1822 – 8 March 1848),^[1] born Couturier, was a French housewife who took numerous lovers and later committed suicide. She was said to have been the inspiration for Gustave Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary.

Biography

Delamare was the daughter of a wealthy land owner. She married an unexciting country doctor, and being bored, she took various lovers. She committed suicide by taking prussic acid (known today as hydrogen cyanide).

An 1848 article in the 'Journal de Rouen' in 1848 told about Doctor Delamare's wife's death in the village of Ry near Rouen, where the house of the Delamares and the tombstone of Delphine Delamare is still to be seen.

Delamare's adulterous affairs were the inspiration for the character of Emma Bovary in Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary in 1857.

References

↑ tombes sepultures

Semiotext(e)

v t e Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (1856)

Characters	Emma Bovary Charles Bovary Rodolphe Boulanger Léon Dupuis Monsieur Lheureux Monsieur Homais Madame Homais

Films	Unholy Love (1932) Madame Bovary (1949) Madame Bovary (1991 French) Madame Bovary (2014)

Television	Madame Bovary (2000)

Adaptations	Ryan's Daughter (1970) Signora Bovary (1987) Maya Memsaab (1992 Hindi) Madame Blueberry (1998) Gemma Bovery (1999)

Related	The Perpetual Orgy Bovarysme Anuradha From These Roots

Inspiration	Louise Colet Delphine Delamare

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Name	Delamare, Delphine
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Date of birth	1822
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Date of death	8 March 1848
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