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France -- Politics and government -- 1789-1900 -- Fiction Books
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Stendhal
Lucien Leuwen; ou, l'Amarante et le Noir. Tome Second
"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.
Stendhal
Lucien Leuwen; ou, l'Amarante et le Noir. Tome Premier
"Lucien Leuwen; ou, l'Amarante et le Noir. Tome Premier" by Stendhal is an unfinished novel written in 1834. It follows Lucien, a Parisian banker's son expelled from military school for protesting, who joins the army and falls in love with a disdainful young widow in Nancy. After losing her, he returns to Paris to become a government minister's secretary. Stendhal abandoned the work, fearing his political satire would cost him his diplomatic position under the July Monarchy. The novel remained unpublished until 1894.
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