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Colonel Chabert, a Napoleonic War hero supposedly killed in the Battle of Eylau, returns to Paris after a long convalescence to find his wife remarried, and his pension gone. He employs a young, well-known lawyer to at least reclaim his pension. It is a game of wits: first to... Read Full Overview

Colonel Chabert, a Napoleonic War hero supposedly killed in the Battle of Eylau, returns to Paris after a long convalescence to find his wife remarried, and his pension gone. He employs a young, well-known lawyer to at least reclaim his pension. It is a game of wits: first to... Read Full Overview

Chabert, colonel, comte d'Empire, est mort ? Eylau, et son d?c?s, historique, est consign? dans les actes militaires. Enseveli vivant ! Tel fut le sort de Chabert. Jet? dans une fosse au milieu des cadavres, sortant de ce charnier par miracle pour rester pendant six mois entre... Read Full Overview

Le Colonel Chabert is an 1832 novella by French novelist and playwright Honor de Balzac. It is included in his series of novels known as La Com die humaine, which depicts and parodies French society in the period of the Restoration and the July Monarchy.Honor de Balzac was... Read Full Overview

Colonel Chabert

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How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Formatted for e-reader Illustrated About Colonel Chabert by Honor? de Balzac Colonel Chabert is an 1832 novella by French novelist and playwright Honor? de Balzac (1799-1850). It... Read Full Overview

How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About Colonel Chabert by Honor? de Balzac Colonel Chabert is an 1832 novella by French novelist and playwright Honor? de Balzac (1799-1850). It is included in his series... Read Full Overview

La novela cuenta la historia del coronel Hyacinthe Chabert, que, tras luchar heroicamente en la batalla napole nica de Eylau, en 1807, es dado oficialmente por muerto y enterrado en una fosa com n junto a los dem s ca dos en combate. Lo que no espera nadie es que el coronel,... Read Full Overview

The story of a French military hero of the Napoleonic Wars, long assumed to be dead, tries to recover his fortune and former wife through the help of a famous Parisian lawyer. Colonel Chabert, a Napoleonic War hero supposedly killed in the Battle of Eylau, returns to Paris after... Read Full Overview

Le Colonel Chabert, laiss pour mort sur le champ de bataille d'Eylau, revient Paris apr s la chute de Napol on: celui-ci est Ste-H l ne; sa femme, elle, s'est remari e et a eu deux enfants de son nouveau mari, un aristocrate. Chabert, sans le sou, trouve n anmoins un avou... Read Full Overview

Colonel Chabert is a novel written by Honore De Balzac, first published in 1832. The book tells the story of a French soldier, Colonel Chabert, who is presumed dead after being severely wounded in battle during the Napoleonic Wars. However, after surviving his injuries, Chabert... Read Full Overview

L'histoire commence dans une tude d'avou o six clercs font des plaisanteries pendant qu'ils travaillent. Puis arrive un vieil homme: tous se moquent de lui, car il porte des v tements tr s anciens. Le vieil homme dit qu'il doit parler avec le patron de l' tude, Ma tre Derville... Read Full Overview