Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac
A Napoleonic officer long presumed dead after a bloody battle miraculously returns to Paris only to discover his fortune gone and his wife remarried; he hires a shrewd lawyer and embarks on a struggle to prove his identity and reclaim his rights. The ensuing legal and social conflicts expose the cold bureaucracy, opportunism, and moral compromises of postwar society, forcing a tragic confrontation between personal honor and social reinvention.
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- 1832
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- French
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- Le Colonel Chabert
- The Colonel Chabert
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