It had been difficult, however, to distinguish one from the other when all three were schoolboys at the lycee Condorcet; and even nowadays people made mistakes unless they saw them side by side, so as to detect the points of difference which were becoming more marked as age progressed.
"The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Vol. 2"
Emile Zola
He was adjusting some piece of mechanism, and nobody would have suspected him to be a former pupil of the lycee Condorcet, one of the three clever Froments who had there rendered the name famous.
"The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Vol. 2"
Emile Zola
He was only eighteen, and his story was simply this: as he had grown disgusted with classical studies and been mastered by a passion for drawing, his father had let him leave the lycee Condorcet when he was in the third class there.
"The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Vol. 2"
Emile Zola