Simple Soul

A Simple Soul is Gustave Flaubert's first short story published in the book Three Tales, published in 1877.The story of A Simple Heart is simply the story of an obscure life, that of a poor country girl, devout but mystical, devoted without exaltation and tender as fresh bread.She loves successively a man, the children of her mistress, a nephew, an old man whom she cares for and then her parrot; when the parrot is dead, she has it stuffed and, dying in turn, she confuses the parrot with the Holy Spirit.