The Chouans

La Comédie Humaine: Les Chouans

• Author(s): Honoré de Balzac,
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Pages: 186
• ISBN_10: 1981507590
  ISBN_13: 9781981507597
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Fiction / General , Fiction / Classics ,

Description:... Les Chouans is an 1829 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) and included in the Scènes de la vie militaire section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. Set in the French region of Brittany, the novel combines military history with a love story between the aristocratic Marie de Verneuil and the Chouan royalist Alphonse de Montauran. It takes place during the 1799 post-war uprising in Fougères.