Les Chouans

by Honoré de Balzac · 1829

A republican beauty is sent to seduce and betray a royalist rebel leader in war-torn Brittany, and falls in love instead.

Books that mention Les Chouans (2)

• Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami: “The girl sat in a corner, reading Balzac's Chouans.”
• Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac: “And he put on the scowl that had brought his soldiers to attention when he was beating the broom on the heaths of Brittany in 1799. (See _Les Chouans_.)”