The Recruit by Honoré de Balzac

26 pages first pub 1831 (view editions)

fiction short stories emotional reflective sad fast-paced
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An 1831 short story, Le Réquisitionnaire takes place in November 1793 and features Madame de Dey, a danger seeking aristocrat, whose one love is for her son, the sole heir of the family. Already widowed at the time of the Terror, she has retired f...

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