Sentimental Education is the story of a young man's infatuation with a married woman. It is also Gustave Flaubert's bitterest satire of bourgeois greed, social pretence and the sexual promiscuity of Paris society in the 1840s. The story unfolds against a background of noisy political protest, bloody revolution and a final bourgeois reaction.

A BBC Television Production dramatised in four parts by Hugh Leonard. Shown Sunday 9th-30th August 1970. Repeated Friday 14th August - 4th September 1970.

• 1/4 A Start To Loving
  
  
• 2/4 The Red Rose And The White: Frederic has returned home to find that his mother cannot afford to let him return to Paris and he therefore fears he will never see Madame Arnoux again.
  
  
• 3/4 The Philanderer: On his way to the races in an open carriage with Rosanette, Frederic is dismayed when they are seen by Madame Arnoux.
  
  
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