Do Bouvard & Pecuchet represent Flaubert when they agree that "the morality of art rests on the side that flatters [each person's] own interests?"

Ch. 5, p. 133

Did you have difficulty distinguishing the joint thoughts of Bouvard & Pecuchet from those of the narrator?

In the Dictionary, under "Antiques," is Flaubert taking a cynical view of antiques, or mocking the cynical view?

Likewise for "budget," "concision," "concupiscence," "conspirator," "countenance," "face," "references."

How would the novel have been different if it had only one main character?

Turgenev told Flaubert that satire must be short to be readable. Was he right?