Un enterrement à Paris de Gustave Flaubert (L’Éducation sentimentale, 1869)

“A Burial at Paris” by Gustave Flaubert (Sentimental Education, 1869) The paper focuses on the passage burial of banker Dambreuse in chapter IV third part Sentimental Education (L’Éducation sentimentale, where there is a portrayal path from final illness to agony and, above all, tomb rich Parisian. funerary scenography that sets this scene radicalises break with intimate code death. It deprives deceased role protagonist drama make room for public management death: gestures and parades regulate ritual, beyond collective spiritual investment