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Chateaubriand - Poet, Statesman, Lover (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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Chateaubriand - Poet, Statesman, Lover (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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CHATEAUBRIAND- Poet Statesman Lover by ANDREW MAUROIS. Contents
include: Introduction ix I. Childhood and Youth i II. Soldier and
Voyager 3 5 III. Exile 57 IV. Le Genie du Christianisme 87 V,
Journey from Paris to Andalmia 1 2 8 VI The Valley of Wolves 156
VIL The Partisan 193 VIII. The Upward Climb. The Dizzy Heights. The
Fall 233 IX. The Monarchist against the Monarchy 269 X, Old Age and
Second Flowering 305 ILLUSTRATIONS Chateaubriand in 1 820
frontispiece Madame Recamier facing page 55 Chateaubriand 70 Madame
de Custine 135 Natalie de Labor de. Viscountess of Noailles 1 50
The Countess of Castellane 215 Portrait of Madame Recamier in later
life 230 Chateaubriand, last portrait, 186* 7 278. Introduction:
SEVERAL reasons have led me to apply myself to the study of
Chateaubriand's life. The first was a great admiration for the
writer, one of those who have exercised the most lasting and
profound in fluence on French literature; the second the desire to
compare a French romantic with the English romantics I had studied,
and especially to find in Chateaubriand the original of which Byron
was so often a copy; the third a keen interest in that strange
exist ence which found itself bound up with the whole history of
France throughout the most dramatic period of that history* The Old
Order, the Revolution, the Empire, the Restoration, the July
monarchy, Chateaubriand knew them all; he was banished by the
Republic, a rival of the Emperor, a minister and afterwards an op
ponent of the King; he lived in England and in America. In his time
he was traveller, soldier, novelist, ambassador, religious writer
and political publicist; he was loved by the most beautiful and
sphinx-like woman of herage. In all this there is so much material
for a biography that it is suiprising to find that Chateaubriand's
has all things considered, been rarely written.
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