It is clearly not that of his famous contemporary Balzac or of the latter's predecessor Scott. His method might be called "free associational" and characterizes the entire novel since the exposition never ends. Note that Stendhal does not rely for his exposition on many pages of description and documentation. Julien's father, a crafty sawyer, has already, in the past, outwitted Rênal in a land transaction. The latter then proposes to his wife that they hire Julien Sorel, student priest of Chélan, as tutor for their children, a move destined to increase his own social prestige since it will cause envy among the liberal textile mill owners. de Rênal one day as they are strolling with their three children on the "Cours de La Fidélité," a public promenade sustained by an enormous retaining wall, the glory of Verrières, the construction of which is due to the administration of Mayor de Rênal. This is the subject of the conversation between M. Rênal and Valenod have, in fact, visited Chélan and reprimanded him for this action. Valenod, who risks being exposed for misuse of funds, given the pitiable conditions existing in these institutions. Appert on a tour of the workhouse and prison, thereby disobeying the wishes of M. Father Chélan, Jansenist and village priest for many years, takes M. They are in agreement, however, upon the importance that they attribute to money and in their slavish respect for small-town public opinion. The village, a microcosm of Paris and of all of France in this respect, is politically divided into two camps: royalists like the mayor and a liberal element dissatisfied with the Restoration. Valenod, the mayor's assistant, has erupted on the otherwise peaceful existence of the village.
de La Mole in Paris to inspect the municipal workhouse and prison administered by M. Situated above the river Doubs, the village owes the prosperity of its peasant citizenry to sawmills and to the manufacture of calico. de Rênal is the mayor and wealthy owner of the nail factory in the small mountain village of Verrières in the eastern province of Franche-Comté.
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