Bénédicte Percheron Gustave Flaubert, Œuvres complètes, tome IV, La Tentation de Saint Antoine (1874), Paris, L. Conard, 1874, pp. 200 – 201. ‘Insects that no longer have stomachs continue to eat; dried up ferns begin to bloom again; missing limbs grow back. Finally, he notices little globular lumps as big as the head of a pin and surrounded with cilia. They are vibrating. ANTHONY Overjoyed: ‘O joy! Joy!’ I have beheld the birth of life! I have seen the beginning of motion! The blood in m...