Un cœur simple

Félicité serves the same mistress, Madame Aubain, for half a century in a small town in Normandy. Abandoned by the man she loved, she gives all her affection to others: Madame Aubain's children, a nephew who goes to sea, an old man she nurses, and at last a parrot, Loulou. As she loses them one by one, her faith and her love stay whole. A short novel by Flaubert, tender and precise, in a French where every word is weighed.