This loosely paced coming-of-age story chronicles the life of 15-year-old Laurent Chevalier as he navigates adolescence in France during the 1950s. Chevalier develops scarlet fever after engaging in his first sexual encounter with a prostitute and avoiding the lips of a priest. Chevalier and his overprotective and unfaithful mother are placed in a sanatorium after Chevalier develops a heart murmur due to a fever.
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This loosely paced coming-of-age story chronicles the life of 15-year-old Laurent Chevalier as he navigates adolescence in France during the 1950s. Chevalier develops scarlet fever after engaging in his first sexual encounter with a prostitute and avoiding the lips of a priest. Chevalier and his overprotective and unfaithful mother are placed in a sanatorium after Chevalier develops a heart murmur due to a fever.
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