by Honoré de Balzac · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782080704597
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«Les Chouans» is the historical novel by Honoré de Balzac, published by Editions Flammarion in paperback format (447 pages, in French).
In 1799, during the civil war in Brittany, royalist counter-revolutionaries called chouans fight the Republic through ambushes and violence. The novel, inspired by real historical events, blends that struggle with the espionage and love intrigues of four characters and with the clash between peasant resistance and the military.
Originally published in 1829, it is part of the series «La Comédie humaine», within its Scenes of Military Life. The action is inspired by real events in the Fougères area.
For readers of historical fiction and French literary classics, with a special interest in the French Revolution and Balzac.
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.
