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  • He had recently read a eulogy on a new method for curing club-foot, and as he was a partisan of progress, he conceived the patriotic idea that Yonville, in order to keep to the fore, ought to have some operations for strephopody or club-foot.

    Madame Bovary 2003

  • Yonville, in order to keep to the fore, ought to have some operations for strephopody or club-foot.

    Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert 1850

  • Yonville, in order to keep to the fore, ought to have some operations for strephopody or club-foot.

    Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life Gustave Flaubert 1850

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