by Honoré de Balzac · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253098041
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«Le Colonel Chabert» is the classic novel by Honoré de Balzac, published by Le Livre de Poche in paperback format (191 pages, in French).
Hyacinthe Chabert, colonel of the Grande Armée, is presumed dead at the Battle of Eylau and buried among the fallen. Years later he reappears in Paris and finds that his wife has remarried and that Restoration society refuses to acknowledge him. With a lawyer as his only ally, he tries to recover his identity and fortune in a struggle between Napoleonic honour and bourgeois self-interest.
The novel was originally published in 1832. Edition by Stéphane Vachon; it corresponds to volume 24 of La Comédie humaine.
For readers of classic French literature; a work commonly found in school settings.
Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, described as a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.
