Dynamics of Fuchsian meromorphic connections with real periods

In this paper, we study the dynamics of geodesics of Fuchsian meromorphic connections with real periods, giving a precise characterization of the possible -limit sets of simple geodesics in this case. The main tools are the study of the singular flat metric associated to the meromorphic connection, an explicit description of the geodesics nearby a Fuchsian pole with real residue larger than -1 and a far-reaching generalization to our case of the classical Teichm\"uller lemma for quadratic differentials.