A key moment in this work occurs with the introduction of the seductive courtesan "La Marechale" at a masquerade ball.
A key moment in this work occurs with the introduction of the seductive courtesan "La Marechale" at a masquerade ball. Earlier Martinon had tried to offer this novel's disillusioned protagonist some advice about enjoying the city. By the time his mother's illness forces him to go home to Nogent some months later, the main character is a budding lawyer who leaves behind many Parisian [*] friends including the painter Pellerin and the intellectual Senecal. Though not a historical work, the novel does weave in the Revolution, which breaks up a planned tryst with the elusive married woman at the center of its many relationships. The inspiration for that character, was also the muse for the female protagonists in the author's other works November and Memoirs of a Fool, and was named Elisa Schlesinger. In this work she is portrayed as the winsome Madame Arnoux. FTP identify this work, subtitled "The Story of a Young Man," a novel about Frederic Moreau's coming of age, by Gustave Flaubert.
A key moment in this work occurs with the introduction of the seductive courtesan "La Marechale" at a masquerade ball.
{Sentimental Education} or {L’Education Sentimentale}