"Gaston de Latour: An Unfinished Romance" by Walter Pater is a story set during the French Religious Wars, where a young cleric named Gaston de Latour grapples with his spirituality, his familial obligations, and the chaos of the Renaissance world around him. The story introduces readers to the Latour family through a ceremony at their ancestral home, Château de Deux-manoirs, highlighting their history and the solemnity of Gaston's entry into the clergy. Gaston's sensitive nature and spiritual struggles are set against the backdrop of ongoing wars and the vibrant life of La Beauce, France, painting a picture of a young man whose journey will be shaped by both his inner self and the turbulent times.
Gaston de Latour; an unfinished romance
By Walter Pater
Amidst religious war, a young cleric must navigate his faith, family, and the vibrant, yet dangerous, world of the French Renaissance.
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About the AuthorWalter Horatio Pater was an English essayist, art and literary critic, and fiction writer, regarded as one of the great stylists. His first and most often reprinted book, Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), revised as The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry (1877), in which he outlined his approach to art and advocated an ideal of the intense inner life, was taken by many as a manifesto of Aestheticism.
Walter Horatio Pater was an English essayist, art and literary critic, and fiction writer, regarded as one of the great stylists. His first and most often reprinted book, Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), revised as The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry (1877), in which he outlined his approach to art and advocated an ideal of the intense inner life, was taken by many as a manifesto of Aestheticism.
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