Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 5. The Romantic School in France

book lies in its delineation of the latter's character. For to him

even the husband is infinitely preferable. Raymon is the average young Frenchman under the restored Legitimist monarchy; he is what the society of the period has made him, emotional and calculating, love-sick and egotistical, influenced by public opinion and the verdict of society to such an extent that his hard-hear...