Three Minutes That Changed My Life

There is a 1913 novel by Alain Fournier called Les Grandes Meaulnes.
Fournier’s classic tells the story of Augustin Meaulnes (pronounced Mône) who after running away from his boarding school, encounters a mysterious country house and a beautiful woman within it.
After his return a few days later, he tells about his adventures to his best friend François (the narrator of the…