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Colonel Chabert
Honoré de Balzac · Clara Bell · Ellen Marriage
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A Napoleonic soldier presumed dead at the Battle of Eylau returns to Paris to reclaim his identity, fortune, and wife, who has since remarried. This translated novella by Balzac suits readers interested in nineteenth-century French literature and post-Napoleonic society.
Honoré de 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.
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