Alain-Fournier

French novelist and author best known by the pen name Alain-Fournier, famous for the 1913 novel Le Grand Meaulnes; served and was killed in World War I.

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  1. 1. Il Grande Meaulnes

    Narrated by François Seurel, it follows his friendship with the charismatic and haunted Augustin Meaulnes, who during adolescence wanders into a mysterious estate and a magical, secret celebration where he falls in love with Yvonne de Galais; obsessed with re-finding that lost world and the impossible love it promised, he embarks on a quixotic quest whose failures and sacrifices expose themes of longing, memory, and the bitter loss of youthful idealism.

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