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El Verdugo

By Honoré de Balzac

2020-01-03 01:52:24

El Verdugo is a short story by Honoré de Balzac, published in 1829. It one of the Études philosophiques in La Comédie humaine. The story is set in Spain during the Peninsular War, in the coastal town of Menda. The occupying French garrison is com ... Read more
El Verdugo is a short story by Honoré de Balzac, published in 1829. It one of the Études philosophiques in La Comédie humaine. The story is set in Spain during the Peninsular War, in the coastal town of Menda. The occupying French garrison is commanded by a young officer named Victor Marchand, and he is in love with Clara, the daughter of Marquis Léganès, who is the local grandee. One night under cover of a local festival, there is an uprising against the French garrison, supported by British naval ships. The uprising is led by the Marquis and his sons....... Less

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File size19.886 KB
Print pages20
PublisherPublic Domain Books
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9782819932192
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Honoré de Balzac
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Honoré de Balzac was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a pan...

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