Sans-culottes;claustration; Little Dieter Wants to Fly (recommended documentary film concerning an aircraft pilot of exceptional experience); s’ ecraser; Francis Steegmuller; croiset; telega; plimsoll; festschrift; Ems Dispatch; cocotte; edema; shirtwaist; Flaubert’s home; Flaubert to Mademoiselle Leroyer de Chantepie, 1859:

“I am convinced that the most raging material appetites express themselves unwittingly in outbursts of idealism, just as the most obscene carnal excesses are engendered by pure desire for the impossible, ethereal aspiration toward supreme bliss.”