The Chouans

by Honore de Balzac

Overview

The Chouans, the first volume in Balzac's magnificent novel sequence La Comedie Humaine, is the tale of the Royalist uprising in Brittany against the post-revolutionary republic.

Balzac tells it romantically and with passion. Yet his keen eye for documentary detail, together with his mastery of scene-painting, also give the novel authority as an expert study of guerrilla warfare. By interweaving history with adventure, past and present, comedy with tragedy, Balzac created in The Chouans a rich and vivid protrait of the varieties and conditions of men as they are affected by dramatic social and political change.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783734084577
Publisher:	Outlook Verlag
Publication date:	09/28/2019
Pages:	254
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and dramatist who lived from 1799 to 1850. One of the most significant writers of the 19th century, he is regarded as such. Many people believe La Comédie Humaine, his masterwork, to be his finest work. His mother was Anne-Charlotte-Laure Sallambier, and his father was Bernard-François Balssa. He was the Balzacs' second child. Honoré Balzac spent his first two years of life living with a wet nurse after being abandoned as a newborn. From the age of 10, Balzac attended the Oratorian grammar school in Vendôme. "Look at the beautiful ones we sent the academy back!" was how his grandma put it. On a bridge over the River Loire, he attempted suicide. Balzac wrote El Verdugo shortly after his father died. It is the story of a 30-year-old man who kills his father (Balzac was 30 years old at the time). This was Honoré de Balzac's first piece of work. After courting her for five years, Balzac wed Countess Eve de Balzac (formerly Countess Haska) in Ukraine in 1850. On Sunday, August 18, 1850, five months after his wedding, Balzac died in the company of his mother; Eve de Balzac (previously Countess Haska) having retired to bed. Balzac is buried in Paris' Père Lachaise Cemetery.