Colonel Chabert (Esprios Classics)

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Le Colonel Chabert is an 1832 novella by French novelist and playwright Honore de Balzac (1799-1850). It is included in his series of novels (or Roman-fleuve) known as La Comedie humaine (The Human Comedy), which depicts and parodies French society in the period of the Restoration (1815-1830) and the July Monarchy (1830-1848). This novella, originally published in Le Constitutionnel, was adapted for six different motion pictures, including two silent films. Colonel Chabert marries Rose Chapotel, a prostitute. Colonel Chabert then becomes a French cavalry officer who is held in high esteem by Napoleon Bonaparte. After being severely wounded in the Battle of Eylau (1807), Chabert is recorded as dead and buried with other French casualties.