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Chateaubriand

 

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Chateaubriand : Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi

' Went out [..] to the Tuileries Gardens at 8.55. In going, bought at the 1st shop on the left, under the arcades. a pamphlet by M.Chateaubriand. ' Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi'. Read this as I walked along. Then paid a sol for the Journal Politique.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister      

  

Francois Rene de Chateaubriand : De Buonaparte, des Bourbons, et de la necessite de se rallier a nos princes legitimes

'Saturday Jany. 29th. [...] Read another Irish Pamphlet -- also one of Chateaubriand's -- De Buonaparte et des Bourbons'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      

  

Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand : Atala; ou les amours de deux sauvages

'At Sarzana - read Memoirs of the court of Charles II - Attala'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

  

Chateaubriand : unknown

Monday 11 March 1935: 'I am reading Chateaubriand; & to my joy find I can read an Italian novel for pleasure, currently, easily.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

  

Francois-Rene Vicomte de Chateaubriand : unknown

Tuesday 30 November 1937: 'Reading Chateaubriand now, bought in 6 fine vols for one guinea at Cambridge'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

  

Francois Rene de Chateaubriand : Moïse

'I always thought Chateaubriand had a great deal of the mountebank in him. I bought the play [which she also watched] so you will see it. In his preface he talks of Racine's sacred dramas, but, after all, the histories of Esther and Athalie, though in the Bible, are [italics] mere history [end italics; this is significant because LS is objecting to Chateaubriand representing Moses on stage - implicitly a different thing from what Racine did - this is elaborated on] When I got the book I could scarcely follow the actors, who ate half their words and bellowed the other half.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

  

François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand : 

'She had been reading much of Chateaubriand and Mme de Beaumont during the winter, and had felt her imagination kindled by the relationship between the two'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward      Print: Book

 

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