Round 4: Tossup 6

This author created a housemaid who throws dirt in a bull’s face and begins to pray daily towards a stuffed parrot on her wall. After a performance of the opera Lucia di Lammermoor in a novel by this (15[1])author, (15[2])a woman fakes piano lessons to (15[1])visit a law student. This author, who lived among the ruins of Carthage for his novel Salammbô, wrote a novel in which an attempted surgery on the stableman (*) Hippolyte’s clubfoot leads to an amputation. The title woman of an 1857 novel by this author becomes indebted (10[1])to the tailor Lheureux and eats arsenic after repeatedly cheating on her doctor husband Charles. For 10 points, name this French author of Madame Bovary. ■END■

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