Les Misérables Volume III Book 4 Chapter 3

In which young Marius, newly befriended by Courfeyrac, finds himself immersed in the lively and challenging debates of the Friends of the A B C, where ideals and opinions are unshackled from convention and tradition. Amid spirited discourse on politics, art, and philosophy, he experiences a stirring agitation within his mind, as the certainties of his youth begin to waver beneath the fresh and fervent visions of his comrades.