Simple Heart" under encouragement from his good friend and author George Sand. "The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitalier" was inspired by a large stained-glass window at Rouen Cathedral. Flaubert deliberately made his story markedly different from the story told in glass. "Hérodias" is based on the biblical figure of the same name. Flaubert based the section on the dance of Salomé from a bas-relief also at Rouen Cathedral and his own experience watching a young female dancer while in Egypt. "A Simple Heart" was the inspiration for Flaubert's Parrot, a literary novel by Julian Barnes. "Hérodias" is said to have influenced Oscar Wilde's later Salome (1893) and Jules Massenet's opera Hérodiade (1881); "The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitalier" was the basis for an opera of the same title by Camille Erlanger (1888). The story is described at length in Yann Martel's novel Beatrice and Virgil. The parrot Loulou in "A Simple Heart" makes a cameo appearance in the Nancy Drew computer game Curse of Blackmoor Manor. In the game, Loulou is known to scream "Felicity! The door, the door!" at the player whenever they walk by. Nancy on occasion will say to herself: "I wonder who Felicity is?" References External links (plain text and HTML) [https://archive.org/details/la-legende-de-saint-julien-l-hospitalier-gustave-flaubert Enregistrement audiophonique de La Légende de saint Julien l'Hospitalier]. Audio recording of The Legend of St. Julian the Hospitalier. Christian Rist's remarkable narration and voxography performance Three Short Works at Google Books (scanned book) Un Coeur Simple with 1,200+ English annotations at Tailored Texts A Simple Heart, The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitalier and Herodias, Three Tales in audio version 1877 short story collections French short story collections Works by Gustave Flaubert Cultural depictions of John the Baptist Cultural depictions of Salome