* During what era of French history is 'Le Colonel Chabert' set?
* How does Derville meet Colonel Chabert?
* Why is Derville surprised to hear this man introduce himself as Colonel Chabert?
* What is Colonel Chabert's problem?
* What is the Comtesse Ferraud's problem?
* How does Colonel Chabert propose to solve his problem?
* How does the Comtesse Ferraud propose to solve her problem?
* As he goes to meet with the Comtesse Ferraud, what does Chabert want above all else?
* Why does the agreement between Chabert and the Comtesse fail?
* Derville encounters Chabert twice more in the decades to come. Where?
* Which Norman seaside-resort was described as BALBEC in Marcel Proust's 'Remembrance of Past Time'?
* Which of these authors was not only linked by birth to the town of Bordeaux but even became its burgomaster (or: mayor)?
* Near Macon in Burgundy there is a little village called Milly that became famous because of the poet who lived there.What is the present name of the village?
* Francois Auguste Rene de Chateaubriand had his residence in the Castle of Combourg. Where in France is that castle?
* Which North French town was home to Jules Verne, the author of 'Around the World in 80 Days' and 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea'?
* Which French woman-author earned herself a reputation with the letters she wrote to her daughter in the Castle of Grignan in Southern France ?
* Why is the French author Marcel Jouhandeau rather unpopular in his hometown Gueret in the Creuse department ?
* Who is the French playwright that called his hometown Bellac (in the Haute Vienne, a department of the Limousin ) 'the prettiest town in France' and made it the scene of some of his plays?
* Who was the famous occupant of the Castle of Nohant who counted among her close friends: Franz Liszt, Eugene Delacroix, Turgenev, Honore de Balzac, Theophile Gautier and especially Frederic Chopin ?
* He had a large house at Croisset near the Seine (in Normandy, at a short distance from Rouen.)Guy de Maupassant was one of his closest friends. Of one of his most popular heroines he said that 'she was him'.Who was HE?