"Le Colonel Chabert" (English: "Colonel Chabert") is an 1832 novella by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850). It is included in his series of novels (or Roman-fleuve) known as "La Comédie humaine" ("The Human Comedy"), which depicts and parodies French society in the period of the Restoration (1815–1830) and the July Monarchy (1830–1848). This novella, originally published in "Le Constitutionnel", was adapted for six different motion pictures, including two silent films. [© Éditions Casamédia, 2021. – Cover: drawing by Bertall engraved by Louis-Henri Brévière, 1863. – Original edition: L’Artiste, 1832.]