. . "0039265" . "Les Chouans (French pronunciation: \u200B[le \u0283w\u0251\u0303], The Chouans) is an 1829 novel by French novelist and playwright Honor\u00E9 de Balzac (1799\u20131850) and included in the Sc\u00E8nes de la vie militaire section of his novel sequence La Com\u00E9die 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."@en .