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Colonel Chabert

Honoré de Balzac

Form
Form Novella
Year
Year 1832
Originally in
Originally in French
Pages
Pages 84

A colonel officially killed at Eylau digs himself out of the mass grave and comes back to Paris, where his wife has remarried and his legal death is now worth a fortune to her.

Taken out of the Foundling Hospital to die in the Infirmary for the Aged, after helping Napoleon between whiles to conquer Egypt and Europe.
Colonel Chabert, Honoré de Balzac

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