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Written over the course of four decades, François-René de Chateaubriand's epic autobiography has drawn the admiration of Baudelaire, Flaubert, Proust, Roland Barthes, Paul Auster, and W. G. Sebald. In this unabridged section of the __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. He recalls playing games on the beaches of Saint-Malo, wandering in the woods near his father's castle in Combourg, hunting with King Louis XVI at Versailles, witnessing the first heads carried on pikes through the streets of Paris, meeting with George Washington in Philadelphia, and falling hopelessly in love with a young woman named Charlotte in the small Suffolk town of Bungay. The volume ends with Chateaubriand's return to France after eight years of exile in England. In this new edition (the first unabridged translation of...

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Author

François-René de Chateaubriand

Publisher

New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781681376172

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, History, Biography

Rating

4.8 / 5 (77 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14