biography
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Chateaubriand, François Auguste René, vicomte de (Viscount of)
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pronunciation:
[shatohbreeã]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1768–1848)
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| biography:
| French politician and writer, born in St Malo, W France. Atala (1801) established his literary reputation, and Le Génie du christianisme (1802, The Genius of Christianity) made him prominent among men of letters. A founder of Romanticism, he lived in exile in England during the French Revolution. He held various political and diplomatic posts after the Restoration, but was disappointed in his hope of becoming prime minister. In his later years, he wrote his celebrated autobiography, Mémoires d'outre-tombe (Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb), not published as a whole until 1902. |
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