by Honoré de Balzac, François Dolléans · Hachette · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782011666994
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«Le Colonel Chabert» is the historical novel by Honoré de Balzac and François Dolléans, published by Hachette in paperback (175 pages, in French).
Colonel Chabert, presumed dead at the Battle of Eylau, returns to Paris ten years later to reclaim his name, his fortune and his wife, who believes him dead and has remarried. The story portrays Restoration France and the clash of a survivor with a society that prefers to ignore him, in a tale about identity, memory, justice and betrayal.
1994 edition in the Hachette Classiques collection, with complete text according to the corrected Furne edition of 1845. The work belongs to La Comédie humaine (number 24 in the series).
School edition aimed at secondary and high school students studying French literature, and at readers who want to approach Balzac in his original language.
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.
