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The memoirs of François René, vicomte de Chateaubriand, sometime ambassador to England, Volume 1 of 6
Being a translation by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos of the Mémoires d'outre-tombe, with illustrations from contemporary sources.
292 pages, ebook
Published January 1, 1902
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François-René de Chateaubriand
2,177 books235 followersFrançois-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand was a French writer, politician and diplomat. He is considered the founder of Romanticism in French literature.
He has also been mistakenly given the forename François-Auguste in an 1811 edition, but signed all his worked as just Chateaubriand or M. le vicomte de Chateaubriand.
He has also been mistakenly given the forename François-Auguste in an 1811 edition, but signed all his worked as just Chateaubriand or M. le vicomte de Chateaubriand.
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May 18, 2017
Title: The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 1 (of 6)
Mémoires d'outre-tombe, volume 1
Author: François René Chateaubriand
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
Release Date: May 18, 2017 [EBook #54743]
Language: English
Produced by Laura N.R. & Marc D'Hooghe at Free Literature (online soon in an extended version, also linking to free sources for education worldwide ... MOOC's, educational materials,...) Images generously made available by the Hathi Trust.
Free download available at Project Gutenberg.
Images generously available at HathiTrust
Page xxiii:
When death lowers the curtain between me and the world, it shall be found that my drama was divided into three acts.
From my early youth until 1800, I was a soldier and a traveller; from 1800 to 1811, under the Consulate and the Empire, my life was given to literature; from the Restoration to the present day, it has been devoted to politics.
Page 159:
No event, however wretched or hateful in itself, should be treated lightly when its circumstances are serious, or when it marks an epoch: what should have been seen in the capture of the Bastille (and what was not then seen) was, not the violent act of the emancipation of a people, but the emancipation itself which resulted from that act.
Mémoires d'outre-tombe, volume 1
Author: François René Chateaubriand
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
Release Date: May 18, 2017 [EBook #54743]
Language: English
Produced by Laura N.R. & Marc D'Hooghe at Free Literature (online soon in an extended version, also linking to free sources for education worldwide ... MOOC's, educational materials,...) Images generously made available by the Hathi Trust.
Free download available at Project Gutenberg.
Images generously available at HathiTrust
Page xxiii:
When death lowers the curtain between me and the world, it shall be found that my drama was divided into three acts.
From my early youth until 1800, I was a soldier and a traveller; from 1800 to 1811, under the Consulate and the Empire, my life was given to literature; from the Restoration to the present day, it has been devoted to politics.
Page 159:
No event, however wretched or hateful in itself, should be treated lightly when its circumstances are serious, or when it marks an epoch: what should have been seen in the capture of the Bastille (and what was not then seen) was, not the violent act of the emancipation of a people, but the emancipation itself which resulted from that act.
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