Who is Christophe Mercier from The Feast of All Saints and what is their importance? The_Feast_of_All_Saints_(novel) English & Literature Christophe Mercier | The Feast of All Saints

Christophe Mercier is the son of Juliet Mercier, who has traveled to Paris for ten years and has now returned to become a teacher for the young gentlemen of color in New Orleans. He returns to find his mother mad and his home in shambles, and his mother in bed with a young boy of only fourteen, Marcel Ste. Marie. Oddly, Christophe befriends the young man and it is with Marcel's help that Christophe begins the school.