With the arrival of the silent, peasant-clad Augustin Meaulnes at the secondary school of Sainte-Agathe, a time of tender dreams and wild adventures begins for his classmates, especially for the younger François. At a wedding celebration in a mysterious castle, Meaulnes falls in love with the beautiful Yvonne de Galais. However, immediately after the celebration, he loses sight of her, and when he finally finds her again after a long search, he and his friends have become so entangled in a web of love, loyalty, and betrayal that it seems Meaulnes can only helplessly watch his dreams fail. Alain-Fournier artfully intertwines dream and reality, reality and fantasy in his only novel. The book, published in 1913, captures the mood of that generation, which was destined to perish in the First World War, like few other works.