Grim fairy tales…
Dina Goldstein’s Fallen Princess Project… very grim fairy tales indeed. (From JPG Magazine)
As we wish upon a star, we note that the anti-fabulist Gustave Flaubert went on trial in Paris on this date in 1857 for “offences against public morality,” a transgression attributed by prosecutors to his novel Madame Bovary.
Coincidentally on that same day, Charles Baudelaire’s slim volume of verse, Les Fleurs du Mal, was published; prosecutors quickly nailed him and his publishers on the same charge.
