Colonel Chabert (Le) / Colonel Chabert
Résumé : 1807, Eylau après la bataille : neige, sang, morts et mourants… Dix ans plus tard, le colonel Chabert raconte son histoire à l’avoué Derville et demande justice : fidèle de Napoléon, laissé pour mort à Eylau, il a survécu par miracle et rentre dans le Paris de la Restauration pour trouver sa femme remariée au comte Ferraud et ses biens usurpés… Synopsis : Colonel Chabert has been severely wounded in the French-Russian Napoleonic war to the point that the medical examiner has signed his death certificate. When he regains his health and memory, he goes back to Paris, where his "widow", Anne has married the Count Ferraud and is financing his rise to power using Chabert's money. Chabert hires a lawyer to help him get back his money and his honor. Based on the Honore the Balzac classic novel.