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François-René de Chateaubriand

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born

September 04, 1768 in Saint-Malo, France

died

July 04, 1848

gender

male

genre

Poetry, Literature & Fiction

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François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand was a French writer, politician and diplomat. He is considered the founder of Romanticism in French literature.

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Average rating: 3.27 · 459 ratings · 35 reviews · 132 distinct works

	Atala and Ren by François-René de Chateaubriand, Irving Putter (Translator) 3.15 avg rating — 213 ratings — published 1952 — 32 editions	My rating:
	Memoires D'outre Tombe 3.85 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 1848 — 15 editions	My rating:
	René 2.92 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1802 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Atala 3.00 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1801 — 33 editions	My rating:
	Mémoires d'outre-tombe, Tome 1: Livres I à XII 3.71 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1997 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Atala - René - Le Dernier Abencerage 3.29 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1801 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Atala, René, Les Natchez 3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1827	My rating:
	Itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem, et de Jérusalem à Paris; suivi du Journal de Julien 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1968 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Mémoires d'outre-tombe, Tome 4: Livres XXXIV à XLII 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Mémoires d'outre-tombe, Tome 3: Livres XXV à XXXIII 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1992	My rating:

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Quotes by François-René de Chateaubriand

“An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.”
― François-René de Chateaubriand

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“Every man carries within himself a world made up of all that he has seen and loved; and it is to this world that he returns, incessantly, though he may pass through and seem to inhabit a world quite foreign to it.”
― François-René de Chateaubriand

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“Alexander created cities everywhere he passed: I have left dreams everywhere I have trailed my life.”
― François-René de Chateaubriand, Memoires D'outre Tombe

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