This document summarizes several characters from a story. Clement Mathieu was the best prefect who cared for the students and helped form a chorus. Pierre was an introverted student with a good singing voice who had a solo. Chabert was a teacher and friend of Mathieu who shared teaching methods with the director. The director, Rachid, was autocratic and dictatorial, using violence in his teaching. Maxence worked in the nursery the longest but was injured and died.