French writer, politician and historian (1768–1848)
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He wrote a memoir that wouldn't be published until after his death and ended up reshaping French literature — while alive, he defended the Catholic Church when most intellectuals were abandoning it, and somehow managed to believe he was the greatest lover, writer, and philosopher of his time.
François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand came from old Breton aristocracy and held royalist convictions through an age of upheaval. In 1811 the Académie Française admitted him; by then he'd already published Génie du christianisme, a defense of Catholicism written when the intellectual current ran hard against the Church. Between 1822 and 1824 he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs, and his diplomatic postings took him to Sweden, Prussia, the United Kingdom, and the Papal States. He spent decades on Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe, an autobiography designed to appear only after he was gone — it came o…
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Memory is often the attribute of stupidity; it generally belongs to heavy spirits whom it makes even heavier by the baggage it loads them down with.
I halt at the beginning of my travels, in Pennsylvania, in order to compare Washington and Bonaparte.
A degree of silence envelops Washington’s actions; he moved slowly; one might say that he felt charged with future liberty, and that he feared to compromise it.
One does not learn how to die by killing others.
I have explored the seas of the Old World and the New, and trodden the soil of the four quarters of the Earth.
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