Download or read book Le Colonel Chabert written by Honoré de Balzac and published by European Masterpieces. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hero of the Napoleonic Wars, supposedly killed in battle, returns after a long convalescence to find his wife remarried and his pension gone. Colonel Chabert hires a lawyer to obtain justice, but the lawyer is playing a double game--unknown to the colonel he is working for the wife.