"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 The novel remained unpublished until 1894. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
