by Honoré de Balzac · Éd. Carrefour · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782743202705
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«Le colonel Chabert» is the novel by Honoré de Balzac published in the Classique collection of Éd. Carrefour in paperback (221 pages, in French).
An old man appears in the office of the lawyer Derville and claims to be Colonel Chabert, a hero of the Napoleonic wars presumed dead on the battlefield, who survived under a pile of corpses and spent years amnesiac. On returning to Paris, he discovers that his wife has married an aristocrat and that his assets have been liquidated; with Derville's help, he tries to recover his name and fortune in post-Restoration France.
The work is part of the La Comédie Humaine cycle, where it occupies position 24; this edition includes the complete text. The novel was originally published in 1832.
Suitable for students and readers interested in nineteenth-century French literature and the La Comédie Humaine cycle.
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.
