Talk:Gemma Bovery

The place where the action is situated, the fictional Bailleville is a small village. Many place-names in Normandy end in -ville preceded by a personal name, which indicates that they date back to early medieval times, the latin villa meaning ‘a farm’. The modern meaning, ‘a town’, is much later, — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.220.104.87 (talk) 20:45, 23 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]