by Honoré de Balzac · LGF · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253003205
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«Les Chouans» is the historical novel by Honoré de Balzac, published by LGF (Le Livre de Poche) in paperback (480 pages, in French).
In Brittany in 1799, during the civil war between royalists and republicans, Marie de Verneuil is tasked with seducing the Marquis de Montauran, leader of the Chouans, to hand him over to the police, but the mission becomes complicated when Marie de Verneuil and Montauran fall in love.
The novel was originally published in 1829, belongs to La Comédie humaine (position 62), and this edition is from 1972.
For readers of historical fiction and nineteenth-century French realism, it is an early work by 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.
