Madame Bovary
Transportation used between pages 0-100
One-horse shay (p.30) (used by visitors to travel to Charles and Emma wedding)
- opened wheeled vehicle that was American adaptation of French chaise
- hung by leather braces from a pair of square wooden springs attached to the shafts
Part 1 Ch.4
The invited guests arrived early in a variety of vehicles-- one-horse shays, two-wheeled charabancs, old gigs without tops, vans with leather curtains; and the young men from the nearest villages came in farm-carts, standing one behind the other along the sides and grasping the rails to keep from being thrown, for the horses trotted briskly and the roads were rough. They came as far as twenty-five miles away, from Goderville, from Normanville, from Cany.
(Charles and Emma wedding.)
(p.30)
Stagecoach (p.11)
Part 1 Ch.1
To save him money, his mother sent him a roast of veal each week by the stagecoach, and off this he lunched when he came in from the hospital, warming his feet by beating against the wall.
(p.11)
Tilbury (p.38)
- light, open, two-wheeled carriage with or without a top
- cost?
- large wheels that move fast over rough roads
- fast, light, sportsy, and dangerous
- spindle backed seat with curved padded backrest
Part 1 Ch. 5
And her husband, knowing that she liked to go for drives, bought a second-hand two wheeled buggy. With new lamps and quilted leather mudguards it looked almost like a tilbury.
(p.38)
Two/Four wheeled charabancs (p.30) (used by visitors that traveled to Charles and Emma wedding)
- cost = ?
- horse drawn vehicle or motor coach
- usually open topped
- long, light, two or four wheeled, wagonette-like carriage
- several rows of benched seats (plenty of room)
- no roof
- carries large groups of people
- very popular
Part 1 Ch.4
The invited guests arrived early in a variety of vehicles-- one-horse shays, two-wheeled charabancs, old gigs without tops, vans with leather curtains; and the young men from the nearest villages came in farm-carts, standing one behind the other along the sides and grasping the rails to keep from being thrown, for the horses trotted briskly and the roads were rough. They came as far as twenty-five miles away, from Goderville, from Normanville, from Cany.
(Charles and Emma wedding.)
(p.30)
Old gigs w/out tops (p.30) (used by visitors that traveled to Charles and Emma wedding)
-
light, two-wheeled sprung cart pulled by one horse
-
more formal than a village cart and meadowbrook cart
-
sometimes used for carriage racing
Part 1 Ch.4
The invited guests arrived early in a variety of vehicles-- one-horse shays, two-wheeled charabancs, old gigs without tops, vans with leather curtains; and the young men from the nearest villages came in farm-carts, standing one behind the other along the sides and grasping the rails to keep from being thrown, for the horses trotted briskly and the roads were rough. They came as far as twenty-five miles away, from Goderville, from Normanville, from Cany.
(Charles and Emma wedding.)
(p.30)
Second-hand two wheeled buggy (p.38) (transportation sometimes used by Charles instead of riding by horseback)
Part 1 Ch. 5
And her husband, knowing that she liked to go for drives, bought a second-hand two wheeled buggy. With new lamps and quilted leather mudguards it looked almost like a tilbury.
(p.38)
Part 1 Ch.7
One Wednesday at three in the afternoon, therefore, Monsieur and Madame Boovary set out in their buggy for La Vaubyessard, a large trunk tied on behind and a hatbox in front. Charles had another box between his legs.
They arrived at nightfall, just as lanterns were being lit in the grounds to illuminate the driveway.
(Charles drove buggy from Tostes to La Vaubysessard.)
(p.54)
Part 1 Ch.8
Charles's buggy drew up before the middle door; servants appeared, then the marquis, who gave the doctor's wife his arm and led her into the entrance hall.
(Charles arrived at La Vaubyessard.)
(p.55-56)
Part 1 Ch.8
The slack reins slapped against his rump and grew wet with lather; and the case tied on behind thumped heavily and regularly against the body of the buggy.
(p.64)
Other Terms
Horseback (Charles rides on a single horse throughout the first part of the book)
Farm-cart (p.30) (used by visitors that traveled to Charles and Emma wedding)
Vans with leather curtains (p.30) (used by visitors that traveled to Charles and Emma wedding)
On foot or walking
Hirondelle(p.89)
mill-horse (p.11)
horse
cart-horses
carriages
white mare
black horse
coach
Trips
Trips by Charles (trips by Charles were on horseback or by buggy)
Tostes to Les Bertaux-15miles on horseback
Tostes to La Vaubyessbard- 3afternoon to nightfall by buggy
Tostes to Rouen-? on horseback
Rouen to Yonville-20 miles on horseback
Other Trips
Normanville, Goderville, Cany to Les Bertaux- as far as 25miles away (some of the visitors that came to the wedding took these trip)
References
www.wikipedia.org (for more information on other types of carriage transportation and some pictures)
britannica.com
http://genealogytrails.com/main/stagecoaches.html
google images (to find pictures of carriage transportation used in Madame Bovary)
www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/results.asp
www.georgianindex.net/horse_and_carriage/carriages.html
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