Colonel Chabert

Colonel Chabert, a Napoleonic War hero supposedly killed in the Battle of Eylau, returns to Paris after a long convalescence to find his wife remarried, and his pension gone. He employs a young, well-known lawyer to at least reclaim his pension. It is a game of wits: first to convince the lawyer that he is who he says he is; secondly to get his wife to admit to his identity and thereby give up some of her wealth. Once the lawyer believes Chabert's story, the wife must be made to part with his pension...

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 11/17/1997
ISBN: 9780811213592
Pages: 101
Weight: 0.29lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.34w x 0.32d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 12/01/1997 pg. 1737