![]() ![]() Biography Early years and exileīorn in Saint-Malo on 4 September 1768, the last of ten children, Chateaubriand grew up at his family's castle the château de Combourg in Combourg, Brittany. ![]() Gay states that Chateaubriand "dominated the literary scene in France in the first half of the nineteenth century". Historian Peter Gay says that Chateaubriand saw himself as the greatest lover, the greatest writer, and the greatest philosopher of his age. His works include the autobiography Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe "Memoirs from Beyond the Grave", published posthumously in 1849–1850. ![]() In an age when large numbers of intellectuals turned against the Church, he authored the Génie du christianisme in defense of the Catholic faith. Descended from an old aristocratic family from Brittany, Chateaubriand was a royalist by political disposition. He hardly knows which is which.įrançois-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand was a French writer, politician, diplomat and historian who had a notable influence on French literature of the nineteenth century. A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play his labor and his leisure his mind and his body his education and his recreation. ![]()
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