It is a long way from Combourg to Berlin, from a youthful dreamer to an old minister. I find among the words preceding these: ‘In how many places hav… - François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand

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It is a long way from Combourg to Berlin, from a youthful dreamer to an old minister. I find among the words preceding these: ‘In how many places have I already continued writing these Memoirs, and in what place will I finish them?'

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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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Marguerite Yourcenar Victor Hugo William Faulkner Roger Zelazny Stendhal

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The eighteenth century, a century of intellectual rather than material action, would not have succeeded in changing the laws so rapidly had it not stumbled on a suitable vehicle: the parliaments, and most notably the parliament of Paris, became the instruments of a philosophical system.
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