# Madame Tuvache — Madame Bovary character guide

> Madame Tuvache in Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0012-part-ii-ii

## Who they are

The wife of the mayor of Yonville.

## In the story

### [The Desperate Search](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/madame_bovary_se/chapters/part-iii-vii)

Observes and gossips about Emma's visit to Binet's workshop with Madame Caron, misinterpreting the scene as a scandalous advance.

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