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Le Colonel Chabert (English: Colonel Chabert) is an 1832 novella by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850). It is included in his series of novels (or Roman-fleuve) known as La Comédie humaine (The Human Comedy), which depicts and parodies French society in the period of the Restoration (1815–1830) and the July ...
Jan 2, 2021 · The gallant Colonel Chabert, a Napoleonic war veteran, is one of Balzac’s most endearing characters. One morning he shows up in despair at a lawyer’s office. He wears a filthy ragged coat, and the clerks mock him and call him “Old Greatcoat.” One clerk even throws pellets of bread at him.
Oct 13, 2013 · I decided to try Le Colonel Chabert after seeing it mentioned in some books I read this year. It comes up a couple of times in Sebald's Austerlitz, but it actually forms a vital component of Javier Marías' most recent novel, The Infatuations, another story about secrets from beyond the grave.
In this first. scene he is a mere thing, a scrap of the social rubbish of Paris. He is completely anonymous, "L'inconnu," "le pauvre homme," l'homme malheureux," "le vieillard," "le patient," "vieux carrick." Society. now judges by appearances instead of deeds, and in this view Chabert.
Oct 18, 2013 · The complete review 's Review: Colonel Chabert is a slim novella, barely more than a sketch -- and yet Balzac's strokes are so assured that it is a resonant work of considerable depth and power.
- Honoré de Balzac
- Colonel Chabert
- Novel
- 1832 (Eng. 1997)
Feb 2, 2013 · Colonel Chabert was as absolutely immovable as one of the wax figures in Curtius' collection to which Godeschal had proposed to treat his fellow-clerks. This quiescence would not have been a subject for astonishment if it had not completed the supernatural aspect of the man's whole person.
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May 29, 2000 · The famous Colonel Chabert was once Napoleon's beloved commander, the savior of the Battle of Eylau in East Prussia in 1807. Chabert's regiment led a cavalry charge against the Russian onslaught...
