Character	Description
Emma Bovary	Emma Bovary is the novel's protagonist, a romantic who is married to Charles Bovary. Read More
Charles Bovary	Charles Bovary is a simple, kind, and naïve doctor absolutely devoted to his wife, Emma. Read More
Monsieur Homais	Monsieur Homais is the pompous pharmacist of Yonville. Read More
Léon Dupuis	Léon Dupuis is Emma's first real friend in Yonville, who later becomes her lover. Read More
Rodolphe Boulanger	Rodolphe Boulanger is a rich owner of an estate and Emma's first lover. Read More
Monsieur Lheureux	Monsieur Lheureux is Yonville's manipulative merchant and moneylender. Read More
The Beggar	The Beggar is a blind homeless man who begs for money along the road from Rouen to Yonville.
Binet	Binet is Yonville's tax-collector.
Bocage	Bocage employs Léon Dupuis in Rouen.
Abbé Bournisien	Yonville's town priest, Abbé Bournisien provides little solace to Emma.
Berthe Bovary	Berthe Bovary is Charles and Emma's daughter, whom Emma neglects and is sent to live with a poor aunt after her parents' deaths.
Heloise Dubuc Bovary	Charles's first wife, Heloise Dubuc Bovary, a widow, dies not long after her marriage to Charles.
Madame Bovary, the elder	Charles's domineering mother Madame Bovary, the elder, disapproves of Emma.
Monsieur Bovary	Monsieur Bovary is Charles's cruel father, a former army officer forced to resign.
Dr. Canivet	Charles Bovary calls in Dr. Canivet for the operation on Hippolyte and also when Emma is poisoned.
Marquis d'Anderviliers	Charles and Emma attend an elegant ball at Marquis d'Anderviliers's chateau.
Felicite	Felicite is Emma's young maid.
Guillaumin	Guillaumin, a lawyer in Yonville, offers to help Emma in return for prostitution.
Hareng	Hareng is a sheriff's officer.
Hippolyte	Yonville's stableman Hippolyte has a club-foot on which Charles unsuccessfully operates.
Hivert	Hivert drives a coach at Yonville.
Athalie Homais	Athalie Homais is a child of Monsieur and Madame Homais.
Irma Homais	Irma Homais is a child of Monsieur and Madame Homais.
Madame Homais	Madame Homais is the wife of the apothecary Monsieur Homais.
Napoléon Homais	Napoléon Homais is a child of Monsieur and Madame Homais.
Justin	Justin, Homais's young assistant, falls in love with Emma and accidentally gives her the poison to kill herself.
Lagardy	Lagardy is a famous singer whom Charles and Emma see in an opera.
Lariviere	Lariviere is a talented doctor from Rouen who tries to save Emma's life.
Madame Lefrancois	Madame Lefrancois is the innkeeper of Yonville.
Madame Lempereur	Madame Lempereur is a piano teacher in Rouen who supposedly has Emma as a pupil.
Catherine Leroux	Catherine Leroux is a humble farmer who receives a prize at the Agricultural Show.
Lestiboudois	Lestiboudois is the sexton at a churchyard in Yonville.
Lieuvain	As the Prefect's representative, Lieuvain gives a speech at the Agricultural Show.
Nastasie	Nastasie serves as the first maid for the Bovary family whom Emma fires.
Mère Rollet	Mère Rollet is the infant Berthe's wet-nurse.
Rouault	Rouault is Emma's father, and a farmer.
Tuvache	Tuvache serves as the mayor of Yonville.
Vincart	Vincart is a banker who works with Lheureux.
The Viscount	The Viscount is a mysterious man who dances with Emma at the ball.

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