The Chouans
The Chouans
by Honore de Balzac
Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
DEDICATION
To Monsieur Theodore Dablin, Merchant.
To my first friend, my first work.
De Balzac.
THE CHOUANS
I
AN AMBUSCADE
Early in the year VIII., at the beginning of Vendemiaire, or, to conform to our own calendar, towards the close of September, 1799, a hundred or so of peasants and a large number of citizens, who had left Fougeres in the morning on their way to Ma ...