Memoirs from Beyond the Grave
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The second part of an infamous memoir about life in the time of Napoleon by a rebellious literary celebrity. In 1800, François-René de Chateaubriand sailed from the cliffs of Dover to the headlands of Calais. He was thirty-one and had been living as a political refugee in England for most of a decade, at times in such extreme poverty that he subsisted on nothing but hot water and two-penny rolls. Over the next fifteen years, his life was utterly changed. He published Atala, René, and The Genius of Christianity to acclaim and epoch-making scandal. He strolled the streets of Jerusalem and mapped the ruins of Carthage. He served Napoleon in Rome, then resigned in protest after the Duc dEnghiens execution, putting his own life at tremendous risk.Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 18001815the second volume in Alex Andriesses new and complete translation of this epic French classicis a chronicle of triumphs and sorrows, narrating not only the authors life during a tumultuous period in European history but the parallel life of Napoleon. In these pages, Chateaubriand continues to paint his distinctive self-portrait, in which the whole history of France swirls around the sitter like a mist of dreams.
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The second part of an infamous memoir about life in the time of Napoleon by a rebellious literary celebrity. In 1800, François-René de Chateaubriand sailed from the cliffs of Dover to the headlands of Calais. He was thirty-one and had been living as a political refugee in England for most of a decade, at times in such extreme poverty that he subsisted on nothing but hot water and two-penny rolls. Over the next fifteen years, his life was utterly changed. He published Atala, René, and The Genius of Christianity to acclaim and epoch-making scandal. He strolled the streets of Jerusalem and mapped the ruins of Carthage. He served Napoleon in Rome, then resigned in protest after the Duc dEnghiens execution, putting his own life at tremendous risk.Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 18001815the second volume in Alex Andriesses new and complete translation of this epic French classicis a chronicle of triumphs and sorrows, narrating not only the authors life during a tumultuous period in European history but the parallel life of Napoleon. In these pages, Chateaubriand continues to paint his distinctive self-portrait, in which the whole history of France swirls around the sitter like a mist of dreams.
AmazonPages: 800, Edition: 1 armband, Paperback, Random House US
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