Lucien Leuwen; ou, l'Amarante et le Noir. Tome Second
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Produced by Laura Natal Rodrigues in memoriam of of Marc D'Hooghe (Images generously made available by Internet Archive.) Produced by Laura Natal Rodrigues in memoriam of of Marc D'Hooghe (Images generously made available by Internet Archive.)
"Lucien Leuwen; ou, l'Amarante et le Noir. Tome Second" by Stendhal is a novel written in 1834 but published posthumously in 1894. Young polytechnic student Lucien is expelled for republican sympathies and becomes a lieutenant in provincial France, where he falls for Madame de Chasteller, a royalist widow whose politics oppose his own. His father's influence later secures him a position manipulating legislative elections, plunging him into the cynical machinery of July Monarchy politics. The work remains unfinished, exploring disillusionment with post-Napoleonic military life and forbidden love across political divides. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
France -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction French fiction -- 19th century Dissenters -- France -- Fiction France -- Politics and government -- 1789-1900 -- Fiction