Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac

Colonel Chabert

La Comédie Humaine #24

Honoré de Balzac with Carol Cosman (Translator)

101 pages first pub 1832 (editions)

fiction classics challenging reflective sad slow-paced
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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. I...

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