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“... always thought well of Lévy for never having said a word to me about my book.’ As Leclerc and Mollier put it, Flaubert viewed publication as ‘a compromise, or worse … a prostitution’.Needless to say, Flaubert didn’t negotiate his contracts directly with Lévy, which was just as well: his niece Caroline said of him that he ‘had absolutely no head ...”