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Name: Colonel Chabert
Author: Honore de Balzac
Year: 1832
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Popularity: 1.7
Genres/categories: Classic, Fiction
Culture: France

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ISBN:
9780685583418
9781404346284
9781404346291
9781406951288
9781419113550
9781583963098
0685583414
1404346287
1404346295
1406951285
1419113550
158396309X
The story of a French military hero of the Napoleonic Wars, long assumed to be dead, tries to recover his fortune and former wife through the help of a famous Parisian lawyer.
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. It is a game of wits: first to convince the lawyer that he is who he says he is; secondly to get his wife to admit to his identity and thereby give up some of her wealth. Once the lawyer believes Chabert's story, the wife must be made to part with his pension...
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