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The Marriage Contract) (French Edition)

Le Colonel Chabert / Le Contrat de Mariage - Colonel Chabert / The Marriage Contract - French Edition
Author: Honore de Balzac

French Description: — Le Colonel Chabert: Paris, février 1818, peu de temps apres la chute de l'Empire, l’avoué Derville reçoit la visite d'un vieillard misérablement vêtu. Il assure être le colonel Chabert, passé pour mort, à la bataille d’E... more »ylau en 1807. Il avait alors contribué à la victoire en conduisant une charge de cavalerie devenue célèbre. Le vieil homme raconte comment, se réveillant dans un fossé entre des cadavres, il a survécu miraculeusement à ses blessures. Il revient dix ans après et souhaite réclamer son titre, faire valoir ses droits et revivre avec sa femme. Or celle-ci , durant son absence, s’est remariée avec le comte Ferraud. Mais celle-ci le repousse et refuse de reconnaître son ancien mari. L’avocat accepte d’aider le colonel en proposant une transaction à son ancienne épouse. Par dignité, Chabert refuse cet arrangement et disparaît. Repoussé par sa femme, condamné pour vagabondage, Le colonel Chabert finira misérablement sa vie à l’asile.

Le Contrat de Mariage: Lasse de la vie parisienne et des cours d'Europe, le comte Paul de Manerville retourne dans sa province natale, à Bordeaux, avec l'intention de se marier et de mener une vie de gentilhomme. Il ne tarde pas à tomber amoureux de la jeune fille la plus à la mode de la ville, Natalie Evangelista, dont le père était très riche. Il demande bientôt sa main. Au moment de préparer le contrat de mariage, le vieux notaire de famille comprend que, depuis le décès de son mari, Mme Evangelista a dépensé l'héritage de sa fille et qu'elle essaie, avec l'aide de son notaire, de flouer Paul. Il prend des dispositions pour protéger la fortune des Manerville, en particulier par le biais d'un majorat, patrimoine inaliénable destiné à l'aîné mâle et qui doit être transmis de génération en génération. Par dépit d'avoir été démasquée et par vengeance, Mme Evangelista va tenter, avec la complicité de Natalie, de dépouiller Paul de sa fortune au profit de sa fille.

English Description:

Le Colonel Chabert: A vital part of Balzac's "La Comedie Humaine," this radiant novel recounts the story of a disenfranchised hero of the Napoleonic wars. Left for dead on the battlefield of Eylau, Colonel Chabert has spent years in an asylum as an amnesiac. The novel begins as he returns to the life he left behind only to discover that, in his absence, his entire life-family, society, identity-has changed. With Napoleon deposed, France's aristocracy has returned to power "as if the Revolution never occurred," and believing Chabert to be dead, his wife is now married to a count. Sickened by her pretense not to recognize him and by the titled society that spurns his former meritorious deeds, Chabert vows to recover both his money and his reputation.

Le Contrat de Mariage: Paul de Manerville is a gentleman born of wealth and nobility who decides, over the objections of his worldly friend de Marsay, to give up his elegant bachelor’s life and get married at the age of twenty-seven. He falls in love with a beautiful girl named Natalie Evangelista, the daughter of a proud Spanish matriarch whose financial assets have been diminishing since the death of her husband. Too naïve and full of illusions to see the hidden motives of Natalie Evangelista’s mother, who wants Paul’s wealth in order to procure for her daughter the lavish lifestyle she believes to be her birthright, or to recognize that his bride’s loyalty is entirely with her mother and not with him, Paul gets himself stuck in a frigid and childless marriage. So strong are his illusions, that even at the end of the novel he remains unaware of his wife’s infidelities.

ISBN-13: 9782253034049
ISBN-10: 2253034045
Publication Date: 1984
Pages: 314
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Publisher: Livre de Poche
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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Literature & Fiction >> World Literature >> Untranslated >> French
Literature & Fiction >> Authors, A-Z >> ( B ) >> Balzac, Honore de
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