Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9moires_d%27Outre-Tombe Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9moires_d%27outre-tombe Release date is 2008-05-23
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"Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe, Tome 4" by vicomte de François-René Chateaubriand is a memoir written between 1809 and 1841. This autobiographical masterwork spans four distinct periods of Chateaubriand's life: his Breton childhood in the shadow of his authoritarian father, his solitary wanderings through Combourg's forests that awakened his literary imagination, his profound bond with his sister Lucile, and his witness to the French Revolution's violence. The work captures rural France's transformation, aristocratic traditions, and the author's eventual flight to America, all penned with the author's wish that it be published only after his death. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
France -- History -- Consulate and First Empire, 1799-1815 Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 -- Contemporaries Enghien, Louis-Antoine-Henri de Bourbon, duc d', 1772-1804