Das Leiden eines Knaben by Conrad Ferdinand Meyer

"Das Leiden eines Knaben" by Conrad Ferdinand Meyer is a novella published in 1883. Set during the final years of King Louis XIV's reign, it tells the tragic story of Julian Boufflers, a diligent student at a Parisian Jesuit school. After his father exposes corruption within the Jesuit order, Julian becomes the target of cruel mistreatment by his teacher, Père Tellier. The tale unfolds through a frame narrative as the king's physician warns against appointing Tellier as the royal confessor. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Meyer, Conrad Ferdinand, 1825-1898
Title Das Leiden eines Knaben
Note Wikipedia page about this book: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Leiden_eines_Knaben
Credits Produced by Delphine Lettau and Gutenberg Projekt-DE
Reading Level Reading ease score: 80.3 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Language German
LoC Class PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures
Subject France -- Fiction
Subject Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715 -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 9496
Release Date
Last Update Oct 2, 2014
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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