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 (15[1])in a novel by this author, a woman fakes piano lessons to visit a law student. This author, (-5[1])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. (10[1])The title woman of an 1857 novel by this author becomes indebted 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■ (10[1]0[2])

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