Two Poets

Lucien Chardon, the son of a lower middle-class father and an impoverished mother of remote aristocratic descent, is the pivotal figure of the entire work. Living at Angoul me, he is impoverished, impatient, handsome and ambitious. His widowed mother, his sister ve and his best friend, David S chard, do nothing to lessen his high opinion of his own talents, for it is an opinion they share...