Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1800-1815 Chateaubriand Franois-Rne
Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1800-1815 Chateaubriand Franois-Rne The second part of an infamous memoir about life in the time of Napoleon by a rebellious literary celebrity.In 1800, Franois-Ren de…
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Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1800-1815 Chateaubriand Franois-Rne
The second part of an infamous memoir about life in the time of Napoleon by a rebellious literary celebrity.In 1800, Franois-Ren de Chateaubriand sailed from the cliffs of Dover to the headlands of Calais. Over the next fifteen years, his life was utterly changed. He was thirty-one and had been living as a political refugee in England for most of a decade, at times in such extreme poverty that he subsisted on nothing but hot water and two-penny rolls.
He strolled the streets of Jerusalem and mapped the ruins of Carthage. He published Atala, Ren, and The Genius of Christianity to acclaim and epoch-making scandal. He served Napoleon in Rome, then resigned in protest after the Duc d'Enghien's execution, putting his own life at tremendous risk.Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1800-1815--the second volume in Alex Andriesse's new and complete