The Chouans

Les Chouans (French pronunciation: ​[le ʃwɑ̃], The Chouans) is an 1829 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799 — 1850) and included in the Scènes de la vie militaire section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. Set in the French region of Brittany, the novel combines military history with a love story between the aristocratic Marie de Verneuil and the Chouan royalist Alphonse de Montauran. It takes place during the 1799 post-war uprising in Fougères.

• Author
• Honoré de Balzac

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 238

• Series
• La Comédie Humaine

• Publisher
• Hard Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781406951240

• Genres
• classics, france, fiction, literature, novels, roman, war

• Release date
• 2006