![]() ![]() 1–6).Ĭhateaubriand was born in Saint-Malo on 4 September 1768, the youngest son of René Auguste de Chateaubriand, Count of Combourg, Brittany, and Pauline Suzanne de Bédée. 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. The incidents of his life are all interwoven with politics and the tremendous changes brought about by the French Revolution and the First Empire. 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. CHATEAUBRIAND, FRANÇOIS-RENÉ (1768–1848), French statesman and writer ![]()
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