François-René de Chateaubriand
François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand[a] (4 September 1768 – 4 July 1848) was a French writer, politician, diplomat and historian who influenced French literature of the nineteenth century. Descended from an old aristocratic family from Brittany, Chateaubriand was a royalist by political disposition. In an age when large numbers of intellectuals turned against the Church, he authored the Génie du christianisme in defense of the Catholic faith. His works include the autobiography Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe ("Memoirs from Beyond the Grave"), published posthumously in 1849–1850.
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François-René de Chateaubriand
4 September 1768
Saint-Malo, Brittany, France
4 July 1848 (aged 79)
Paris, France
- Jean-Baptiste de Châteaubriand (brother, 1759 – 1794)
- Lucile de Chateaubriand (sister, 1764 — 1804)
Writer, translator, diplomat
1792
Novel, memoir, essay
Religion, exoticism, existentialism
1793–1848
Honors and memberships[edit]
In 1806, Chateaubriand was invested as a Knight of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem during a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.[21]
Chateaubriand was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1816.[22]
A French school in Rome (Italy) is named after him.
The cut of meat, a Chateaubriand, is named after him.
