Colonel Chabert
Balzac makes a portrait of the time in which he lived. It relates the life of a hero of the Napoleonic campaigns, Colonel Chabert. He was presumed dead in the battle of Eylau, in which he played an...
DE BALZAC, Honoré
A Murky Business
The mysterious case of the kidnapping, during the First Empire, of a senator warned of the plot planned by Fouché against Napoleon Bonaparte. A book in which Balzac puts his novelistic talent at the service...