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René Chateaubriand, viscount of, (born Sept. 4, 1768, Saint-Malo, France—died July 4, 1848, Paris), French author and statesman. A cavalry officer at the start of the French Revolution, he refused to join the Royalists and instead sailed to the U.S., where he traveled with fur traders.

May 25, 2018 · In his lifetime, François-René de Chateaubriand won renown as a politician, diplomat, novelist and travel writer. Today he is best remembered for his “Memoirs From Beyond the Grave,” a ...

René is a short novella by François-René de Chateaubriand, which first appeared in 1802. The work had an immense impact on early Romanticism, comparable to that of Goethe 's The Sorrows of Young Werther. Like the German novel, it deals with a sensitive and passionate young man who finds himself at odds with contemporary society.

René had always given as justification for his refusal, the limited interest to be found in his history which was confined, he said, to that of his thoughts and feelings. ‘As for the events which led me to sail for America’, he added, ‘I would wish to bury them in eternal oblivion.’

François-René de Chateaubriand. Francuski pisarz, polityk i dyplomata. Urodził się 4 września 1768 roku w Saint-Malo, w starej rodzinie szlacheckiej. Młodość spędził w bretońskich szkołach i w rodzinnym zamku w Combourg. Po śmierci ojca w roku 1786 roku wyjechał do Paryża. W roku 1791 roku wyruszył w podróż do Ameryki.