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François-René de Chateaubriand
French writer, politician and historian (1768–1848)
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François-René de Chateaubriand | |
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Portrait of Chateaubriand by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson, 1809. Oil on canvas. | |
| In office 4 January 1828 – 8 August 1829 | |
| Appointed by | Jean-Baptiste de Martignac |
| Preceded by | Adrien-Pierre de Montmorency-Laval |
| Succeeded by | Auguste de La Ferronays |
| In office 28 December 1822 – 4 August 1824 | |
| Prime Minister | Jean-Baptiste de Villèle |
| Preceded by | Mathieu de Montmorency |
| Succeeded by | Hyacinthe Maxence de Damas |
| In office 22 December 1822 – 28 December 1822 | |
| Appointed by | Jean-Baptiste de Villèle |
| Preceded by | Antoine de Gramont |
| Succeeded by | Jules de Polignac |
| In office 14 December 1821 – 22 December 1822 | |
| Appointed by | Jean-Baptiste de Villèle |
| Preceded by | Charles-François de Bonnay |
| Succeeded by | Maximilien Gérard de Rayneval |
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François-René, Viscount of Chateaubriand, born in Saint-Malo on September 4, 1768, and died in Paris on July 4, 1848, was a French writer and politician. He is considered the father of French Romanticism and one of the great figures of French literature.Childhood at Combourg It was at St Malo, during a stormy night in September 1768, that François-René’s mother ‘inflicted life on me’. During a childhood divided between the chateau of Combourg and rather desultory studies at Dol, Rennes and Dinan, he gave himself up to idleness and solitude. In François-René’s portrait of his father who regulated everyone’s behaviour and imposed his moods on the chateau, one can sense the fear and respect which this taciturn man inspired in his son. In this austere and isolated life, only his sister Lucile offered François-René shared moments. In her he found an ally, a companion in his solitude. She encouraged him to write, revealing his intuition and taste for poetry. He devotes long passages to her in his Memoirs d’outre-tombe. She inspired two of his heroines: Améli
Chateaubriand, François-RenéCHATEAUBRIAND, FRANÇOIS-RENÉ (1768–1848), French statesman and writer Soldier, diplomat, statesman, one of the foremost authors of nineteenth-century French literature, initiator of the nineteenth-century genre of travel literature to the Middle East, memorializer and translator of Milton's Paradise Lost, François-René Chateaubriand was intimately associated with an age of great upheaval and transformation and may be considered as representative of the currents of thoughts and sentiments of his time. The incidents of his life are all interwoven with politics and the tremendous changes brought about by the French Revolution and the First Empire. His statement reflects accurately his own plight and that of his generation: "I found myself between two centuries like at the meeting of two rivers; I dived in their troubled waters getting away with regrets from the old shore on which I was born and swimming with hope toward the unknown shore where the new generations were landing." ("Preface testamentaire," Mémoires d'outre-tombe, p. 1–6). Chateaubr Copyright ©figloop.pages.dev 2025 | |