
Theatre· Paris
Bouvard et Pécuchet
*Bouvard et Pécuchet* is an unfinished satirical novel by Gustave Flaubert (published posthumously in 1881) that follows two Parisian copy clerks who become friends, inherit money, and retire to the countryside, where they obsessively pursue one field of knowledge after another—agriculture, science, history, romance, education—only to fail comically at each endeavor. The novel satirizes human stup