Free visit of the pavilion
Located on the banks of the Seine, the Pavillon de Croisset is all that remains of the property where Gustave Flaubert lived. During the summer of 1844, the family settled in this building dating from the seventeenth century which was their country house. Gustave Flaubert chose to stay there with his mother and niece, the young Caroline, on the death of his father in 1846. Here, away from Rouen, he wrote Madame Bovary, Salammbô, L'Éducation sentimentale, Bouvard and Pécuchet… Flaubert died at Croisset on 8 May 1880, while working on Bouvard and Pécuchet. The main house was sold in 1882, before being destroyed. The Pavilion was bought, then given in 1906 to the City of Rouen and transformed into a museum. It contains today some intimate memories related to the writer.