Name: Les Chouans (in French)
SKU: 57823637
Price: 694.00 TWD
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Author: Honoré De Balzac
ISBN: 9781720552727

Type

Physical Book

Author

Honoré De Balzac

Publisher

Createspace

Language

French

Pages

222

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x1.2 cm

Weight

0.30 kg.

ISBN13

9781720552727

Synopsis "Les Chouans (in French)"

En septembre 1799, aux confins de la Normandie et de la Bretagne, une troupe républicaine dirigée par le commandant Hulot se fait attaquer par des paysans bretons, les Chouans, qui se battent pour le retour du roi. Fouché, le ministre de la police, souhaite stopper cette nouvelle insurrection de la Bretagne. Il envoie la belle espionne Marie de Verneuil pour séduire leur chef charismatique, le marquis de Montauran, que l'on appelle le Gars. Elle doit, avec l'aide de Corentin, le bras droit de Fouché, un policier ambitieux et peu scrupuleux, le faire tomber dans un piège.

Honoré De Balzac

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Honoré de Balzac (1799-1851), novelist, playwright, literary and art critic, essayist, journalist, and French printer, is considered one of the great writers of realism. Born in Tours, in 1814 he moved to Paris, where he studied law and began working in a law firm, but his love for literature drove him to abandon his career and dedicate himself to writing. He undertook several businesses, which ended in failure and left him in debt. With The Last Chouan (1829), he achieved great success. From then on, he began a feverish activity, writing, among others, The Physiology of Marriage (1829) and The Wild Ass's Skin (1831), with which he began to consolidate his prestige. In 1834, Balzac, a tireless worker, conceived the idea of making an exhaustive portrait of French society of his time by having the same characters appear in different stories, which began to give his work a unitary sense under the title of The Human Comedy, to which belong titles such as Eugénie Grandet (1833), Father Goriot (1835), Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans (1838-1847) or Cousin Bette (1846), although of the 137 novels that were to make it up, fifty remained incomplete. An extraordinary writer, capable of deploying in his works sublime reflections and ideas, creating an interesting story with strong social criticism through exquisite prose of great poetic level and philosophical depth, Balzac is considered the founder of the modern novel.

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