Title: The Year of Awakening - Charles Juliet - book
Summary :
"It all began that October morning. They, the one hundred and twenty students of the company, were in the refectory, busy having breakfast. I was alone in the corridor, leaning my shoulder against a wall, and I was crying." To escape a future that looked miserable, a young shepherd without a family entered the military school in Aix-en-Provence. But life in the barracks was reduced to a succession of bullying, and the officers exercised their sadism on the adolescents with impunity. Young Charles nevertheless found comfort in the friendship shown to him by his section leader. But the discovery of love, with the latter's wife, would turn his life upside down.
