Le Colonel Chabert (English: Colonel Chabert) is an 1832 novella by French novelist and playwright Honor de Balzac (1799-1850). It is included in his series of novels (or Roman-fleuve) known as La Com die humaine (The Human Comedy), which depicts and parodies French society in the period of the Restoration (1815-1830) and the July Monarchy (1830-1848).