biography
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Chateaubriant, Alphonse de Brédenbec de
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pronunciation:
[shatohbreeã]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1877–1951)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Rennes, NW France. Raised in a family of musicians and painters, he began with short stories, then gained his first literary prize with the novel, Monsieur de Lourdines (Prix Goncourt, 1911). The war led him back to Catholicism. Later novels include the best-selling La Brière (1923) and La Meute (1927), which evoke his memories of Brittany and his family. La Reponse du seigneur (1933) and La Gerbe des forces (1937) signal his commitment to Hitler's Germany. He established the weekly La Gerbe in 1940. Declared missing at the Liberation, he ended his days in an Austrian monastery. |
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