The Chouans: La Comédie Humaine: Les Chouans

Les Chouans is an 1829 novel by French novelist and playwright Honor de Balzac (1799-1850) and included in the Sc nes de la vie militaire section of his novel sequence La Com die 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 Foug res.