Aristocracy has three successive stages: the age of superio… - François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand

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Aristocracy has three successive stages: the age of superiority, the age of privilege, and the age of vanity. Once through with the first, it degenerates into the second, and dies out in the third.

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François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand (4 September 1768 – 4 July 1848) was a French writer, politician and diplomat, considered the founder of Romanticism in French literature.

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Native Name: François Auguste René de Chateaubriand

Alternative Names: François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand • François-Auguste-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand • François-René, Vicomte de Chateaubriand • vicomte de Chateaubriand François-René • F. A. von Chateaubriand • François René de Châteaubriand • François-René de Châteaubriand

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