Le Réquisitionnaire (English "The Conscript" or "The Recruit") is a short story by Honoré de Balzac.
A local aristocrat, Madame de Dey lives at her estate at Carentan to ensure that it is not confiscated by the government.
He has written that he was captured during a failed attack on Granville, but that he will escape, and take shelter with her.
In the meantime, a group of conscripts is expected at the city, and one reports to a local official.
The story takes place in November 1793, shortly after a failed Royalist attack on Granville.