Honore de Balzac 
Chouans 

The Chouans) is an 1829 novel by French novelist and playwright Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) and included in the Scenes de la vie militaire section of his novel sequence La Comedie 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 Fougeres.