Colonel Chabert
Balzac's character Chabert--thought killed in the Napoleonic wars-- returns to find his wife remarried, his pension gone, and everything changed. Chabert employs a young lawyer named Derville to negotiate recompense, but, unknown to Chabert, Derville also represents Chabert's former wife. As...
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Balzac's character Chabert--thought killed in the Napoleonic wars-- returns to find his wife remarried, his pension gone, and everything changed. Chabert employs a young lawyer named Derville to negotiate recompense, but, unknown to Chabert, Derville also represents Chabert's former wife. As Derville plays the game of law and intrigue, we see why Balzac himself saw post-Revolutionary politics as plagued with corruption. 128 pp.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781843910374 (1843910373)
Publish date: March 1st 2003
Publisher: Hesperus Press
Pages no: 112
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Read For School,
Historical Fiction,
19th Century,
Roman,
France,
French Literature
Series: La Comédie Humaine
One of the largest mental readjustments I had to make when I started reading Balzac was in my picture of Napoléon. Being brought up in England, I was used to thinking of him as an evil megalomaniac, who nearly destroyed Europe and was only stopped by the heroic efforts of Admiral Nelson and the Duke...
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