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What happens to Berthe Bovary at the end of Madame Bovary?
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Gustave Flaubert, painting by Eugene Giraud, c. 1845; in the Castle Museum, Versailles, France.
At the end of Gustave Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary, following the tragic death of her mother, Emma, and the subsequent death of her father, Charles, Berthe Bovary is left orphaned. Her fate is a bleak one: she is ultimately sent to work in a cotton factory.1