... world. Two works in particular are perfect reflections of this perennial conflict: Le Colonel Chabert by the great Honore de Balzac and The Cherry Orchard by the Russian play writer Anton Chekhov. These two literary pieces, although written a little less than a century apart and in two different ... Balzac also expresses how this marriage was not approved by the Faubourg Saint-Germain, the aristocrat neighborhood of Paris. Very similarly, in The Cherry Orchard, the actual situation is caused by changing times and particularly by an important social change. Russia is in the eve of the re...

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