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Descended from an old aristocratic family from Brittany, Chateaubriand was a royalist by political disposition. In an age when large numbers of intellectuals turned against the Church, he authored the Génie du christianisme in defense of the Catholic faith .
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. On Louis XVI’s fall he returned to join the Royalist army.
Jan 11, 2018 · François-René de Chateaubriand (1768–1848) was a French historian, diplomat, and writer. Long recognized as one of the first French Romantics, he was, in his lifetime, celebrated for his novellas.
Jun 30, 2024 · At the beginning of the French Revolution, he refused to join the Royalists and sailed in April 1791 for the United States, a stay memorable chiefly for his travels with fur traders and for his firsthand acquaintance with Indians in the region around Niagara Falls.
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1792: Back in France and finding Paris too expensive to live in he joins the Royalist Army of emigres in Koblenz, Germany led by Louis Joseph de Bourbon, Prince of Conde. He marries the seventeen-year-old heiress Céleste Buisson de la Vigne from St Malo.
At the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789, Chateaubriand was unable to choose between the Royalists and the revolutionaries. Instead, he sailed in April 1791 for the United States, a stay memorable chiefly for his travels with fur traders and for his firsthand acquaintance with Native Americans in the region around Niagara Falls.
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Mar 29, 2018 · Here, in the first books of his massive Memoirs, spanning the years 1768 to 1800, Chateaubriand looks back on the already bygone world of his youth. He recounts the history of his aristocratic family and the first rumblings of the French Revolution.
