Flaubert wrote that he had nothing but disdain for this good civilization that prided itself on having produced railways, poisons, cream tarts, royalty and the guillotine. What Flaubert hated above all was pomposity.
福楼拜写道,他对这个以生产铁路、毒药、奶油馅饼、皇室和断头台而自豪美好文明只有蔑视。福楼拜最讨厌是浮夸。