Colonel Chabert

Paris, 1818.A man came to Master Derville's study, but he was too busy to devote his time to this unknown patibular and offered to meet him later. When the man leaves the study, he declares himself to be Chabert... but everyone knows that Colonel Chabert died at the Battle of Eylau and that his wife was remarried to Count Ferraud.1h. As agreed, Colonel Chabert meets with Mr. Derville. Disbelieving, Derville nevertheless listens to his client's explanations. Chabert recounts the reasons for his visit: 11 years earlier, at the Battle of Eylau in Germany, the colonel received a heavy blow of a sword to the skull and was left for dead. Thrown into the common grave with the bodies, he nevertheless survived when he was discovered and rescued by two peasants. He was sent to Heilsberg Hospital for convalescence. But due to lack of money, he could not get the documents proving his identity. Once he was cured, he wandered the roads of Germany. Arrested and declared insane, he was locked up in Stuttgart prison. He was released on condition that he stopped pretending to be Chabert, that colonel who had died in battle. Freed from Stuttgart in 1814, he met a former marshal, Boutin, who hardly recognized him. Together, they left Germany. When Chabert became ill, he asked his companion to carry a letter to his wife. A letter that remained unanswered. In 1815, he finally entered Paris. There he learned of his wife's remarriage and the opening of his estate. When he showed up at his wife's house, she ignored him. ...