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The Normandy village which inspired Gustave Flaubert’s famous novel, “Madame Bovary”, is in the running, like thirteen others, to become “The favorite village of the French 2024”. It is also a place for walks and a free literary hike is offered this Sunday, April 28, 2024.
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Strolling around Ry (Seine-Maritime) and the surrounding area is in many cases like stepping back 150 years, with typical Norman houses and in the footsteps of Madame Bovary, the famous novel by Gustave Flaubert. | RY TOWN HALL
Director Claude Chabrol and the BBC made no mistake. They who filmed scenes in this small town of Seine-Maritime, with 800 inhabitants, for their productions of the work of Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary. When we arrive in Ry, selected for “The favorite village of the French 2024”, in this main street “a gunshot long and lined with a few shops”, as Flaubert describes it in his famous novel, we almost believe we are projected 150 years back in time. With a few exceptions, on either side of this street with 40 doorways, the half-timbered, half-timbered and brick houses…
