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Emma’s second lover. When Emma first meets Léon, he is a bored, ambitious clerk who loves to talk vaguely with her about music and literature. He works for the lawyer Guillaumin, and, like Emma, feels stifled by his quiet country life. Emma likes his auburn curls and blue eyes, and they quickly become infatuated with one another. At first nothing happens between them, and Léon moves to Paris to finish his law degree. When he and Emma meet in Rouen four years later, they finally strike up an affair, fueled by many years’ longing and regret. But because their only subject of conversation is love and sentimentality, they know almost nothing of one another, and find no basis for real affection. Léon tires of Emma’s demands and wants to focus on his career. When Emma dies, Léon does not mourn her.
Léon Dupuis Quotes in Madame Bovary
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Part 2, Chapter 5
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With her black hair, her large eyes, her straight nose, her gliding step, always silent now, did it not seem as if she passed through life almost without touching it, bearing on her brow the pale mark of a sublime destiny? She was so sad and so calm, so gentle and yet so shy, that by her side you felt under the spell of a frosty charm, just as you shiver in church at the scent of flowers mingling with the feel of cold marble. … But she was filled with lust, with rage, with hatred.
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Part 3, Chapter 1
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…for that was how they wanted it to have been, each of them now devising for the other an ideal rearrangement of their past. Language is indeed a machine that continually amplifies the emotions.
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Was she serious in saying such things? Doubtless Emma herself had no real idea, being quite taken up with the charm of the seduction and the necessity of resisting it.
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Part 3, Chapter 5
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He admired the exaltation of her soul and the lace on her skirts.
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Léon Dupuis Quotes in Madame Bovary
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Part 2, Chapter 5
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With her black hair, her large eyes, her straight nose, her gliding step, always silent now, did it not seem as if she passed through life almost without touching it, bearing on her brow the pale mark of a sublime destiny? She was so sad and so calm, so gentle and yet so shy, that by her side you felt under the spell of a frosty charm, just as you shiver in church at the scent of flowers mingling with the feel of cold marble. … But she was filled with lust, with rage, with hatred.
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Part 3, Chapter 1
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…for that was how they wanted it to have been, each of them now devising for the other an ideal rearrangement of their past. Language is indeed a machine that continually amplifies the emotions.
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Was she serious in saying such things? Doubtless Emma herself had no real idea, being quite taken up with the charm of the seduction and the necessity of resisting it.
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Part 3, Chapter 5
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He admired the exaltation of her soul and the lace on her skirts.
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