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From: Guillaume LEVEQUE <>
Subject: Re: Le colonel Chabert / La Restauration
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 23:54:00 +0100


velde wrote:
>
> In alt.talk.royalty Mr KC Hancock <> wrote:
> > (Des corrections sur mon frangais sont bienvenues)
>
> Count is "comte" in French (compte = account, not a count!)
>
>
> > 2. Did I miss-hear, but was Le Colonel Chabert also referred to as a
> > count? Did he obtain this rank through his military exploits? I think
that
> > I also heard that he had no parents.
>
> Presumably. He would have been made count under Napoleon (see
> http://www.heraldica.org/topics/france/napoleon.htm
> for Napoleonic titles).
>
> --
> Francois R. Velde
> http://www.heraldica.org/

That's all right, except one little trouble : Balzac was writing too
quickly so when he made colonel Chabert, missing in action in 1807, a
count, he didn't realise Napoleon created Empire nobvility only in 1808
!

G. Leveque

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