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The Chouans
Honoré de Balzac
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The coach toward which the officer was pivoting did, in fact, contain two women, one of whom seemed to be the servant of the other.
"Such women always run in couples," said Hulot.
A lean and sharp-looking little man ambled his horse sometimes before, sometimes behind the carriage; but, though he was evidently accompanying these privileged women, no one had yet seen him speak to them. This silence, a proof either of respect or contempt, as the case might be; the quantity of baggage belonging to the lady, whom the commandant sneeringly called "the princess"; everything, even to the clothes of her attendant squire, stirred Hulot's bile. The dress of the unknown man was a good specimen of the fashions of the day then being caricatured as "incroyable,"—unbelievable, unless seen. Imagine a person trussed up in a coat, the front of which was so short that five or six inches of the waistcoat. . . Read More
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Balzac'ın bir takma isim kullanmadan yazdığı ilk roman olan Köylü İsyanı, ayrıca tüm eserlerini içeren ünlü İnsanlık Komedyası (La Comédie Humaine) külliyatının da ilk eserini oluşturuyor. Roman, Fransa'nın Bretanya bölgesinde 1794-1800 yılları arasında meydana gelmiş, devrim tarihindeki en büyük ve
In 1799, in France, the Chouans, royalist Breton peasants, in a guerrilla, oppose the Republicans. An aristocrat, Marie de Verneuil, is sent by Joseph Fouché, the terrible minister of police to seduce and capture their leader, the Marquis de Montauran, known as "the Guy" (le Gars). She must be helpe
The Chouans were royalist rebels of Brittany (in northwestern France), supporters of the Bourbons during the years of the French Revolution and Napoleon. Their uprising against the Democrats is due to a mixture of unwavering adherence to medieval feudalism, religiosity, and opportunism, as their usu
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The walls of the Stronghold in Fougères
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This is a story firmly set in Romanticism, about the first labours of the counter-revolution in French Brittany and Vendée.
This book compels you to go and visit Fougères. Lively story, Dizzying pace and headstrong
Primul roman publicat de Balzac, "Les Chouans" (1829), este o capodoperă. Titlul iniţial al romanului, "Le dernier chouan", reflectă ideea ultimului capitol al operei, în care aflăm că cele mai preţioase informaţii despre evenimentele petrecute în 1799 în Bretania au fost oferite autorului, în urma
Balzac is one of France's greatest storytellers and this particular thriller is one of his most spine-tingling ones. The Chouans were a counter-revolutionary movement during the French Revolution that occurred in the region between Brittany and Nantes and Balzac places his story in this accurate his
الحكم على رواية في بدايتها أو منتصفها قد يكون فيه شئ من الخطأ وتسرع لا يجوز أن يفعله القارئ، خاصة إذا كانت روايةً لـ كاتب عملاق مثل " بـلـزاك " ..
هذه الرواية حيرتني بقصتها وتفاصيلها الكثيرة التي وجدت نفسي فيها غريباً وخارج أجواء الرواية تماماً في البداية، كنت أحسب أن الاستمرار في قراءة الرواية مضيعة