After decades, it is a film easy to see more for Jean Claude Brialy , Dawn Addams and Marie Jose Nat than for the Flaubert novel as source. A film about loneliness, love, intrigues, illusions, duty, keeping all the flavors of its time , seeming very simplistic and unrealistic, remaining charming not only for nostalgics, for a sort of innocence and XIX atmosphere, for well manner to remind the fragility of relations.. A beautiful adaptation with purpoise of past travel.