![]() ![]() ![]() He was brought up in the solitude of a medieval castle, nestled in the woods of Brittany, by a father whose nostalgia for feudal times was unremitting. Thus did Chateaubriand straddle not only two centuries but also two worlds, that of the ancien régime and that of the modern era. Born in 1768 during the reign of Louis XV, François-René de Chateaubriand died in 1848, a few months after the revolution that drove Louis-Philippe from the throne and paved the way to the reign of Napoleon III. ![]()
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