La vie me sied mal; le mort m'ira peut-être mieux. - François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand

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La vie me sied mal; le mort m'ira peut-être mieux.

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About François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand

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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Thus, in my rendering, Chateaubriand may occasionally sound like Cioran (who called him “a sonorous Pascal”), or Baudelaire (who called him “one of the surest and rarest masters”), or Proust (who compared his distinctive sentences to the barn owl’s distinctive cry), or Sebald (who so seamlessly integrated passages of the Memoirs into the penultimate chapter of The Rings of Saturn).

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