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«Mémoires d'outre-tombe», volume I, is the autobiography of François-René de Chateaubriand, published by Larousse in paperback (144 pages, in French).
Autobiography in which Chateaubriand reconstructs his life and times, from the Ancien Régime to the Restoration. The court of Louis XVI, the Revolution, the rise of Napoleon, Waterloo and subsequent political life pass by, with reflections on memory, death and religion.
Edition of extracts from Classiques Larousse, published in 1988. The work was originally published in 1849.
For readers interested in nineteenth-century French autobiography and in the history of France between the Ancien Régime and the Restoration.
François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand was a French writer, politician, diplomat and historian who influenced French literature of the 19th century. Descended from an old aristocratic family from Brittany, Chateaubriand was a royalist by political disposition. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1822 to 1824 and as the French ambassador to Sweden, Prussia, the United Kingdom, and the Papal States.
