François René de Chateaubriand, Viscoont o Chateaubriand
François René de Chateaubriand, Viscoont o Chateaubriand (French: [fʁɑ̃swa ʁəne də ʃɑtobʁijɑ̃]; September 4, 1768 – Julie 4, 1848), wis a French writer, politeecian, diplomat, an historian wha is conseedert the foonder o Romanticism in French leeteratur.
François René de Chateaubriand | |
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230px Portrait o Chateaubriand as Peer o Fraunce (1828) | |
France Ambassador tae the Papal States | |
In office 4 Januar 1828 – 8 August 1829 | |
Appyntit bi | Jean Baptiste de Martignac |
Precedit bi | Adrien Pierre de Montmorency |
Succeedit bi | Auguste de La Ferronays |
Minister o Furrin Affairs | |
In office 28 December 1822 – 4 August 1824 | |
Prime Meenister | Jean-Baptiste de Villèle |
Precedit bi | Mathieu de Montmorency |
Succeedit bi | Hyacinthe Maxence de Damas |
Fraunce Ambassador tae the Unitit Kinrick | |
In office 22 December 1822 – 28 December 1822 | |
Appyntit bi | Jean-Baptiste de Villèle |
Precedit bi | Antoine de Gramont |
Succeedit bi | Jules de Polignac |
Fraunce Ambassador tae Proushie | |
In office 14 December 1821 – 22 December 1822 | |
Appyntit bi | Jean-Baptiste de Villèle |
Precedit bi | Charles François de Bonnay |
Succeedit bi | Maximilien Gérard de Rayneval |
France Ambassador tae Swaden | |
In office 3 Apryle 1814 – 26 September 1815 | |
Appyntit bi | Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand |
Member o the Académie française | |
In office 1811–1848 | |
Precedit bi | Marie-Joseph Chénier |
Succeedit bi | Paul de Noailles |
Personal details | |
Born | 4 September 1768 Saint-Malo, Brittany, Fraunce |
Dee'd | 4 Julie 1848 Paris, Seine, Fraunce | (aged 79)
Spoose(s) | Céleste Buisson de la Vigne (m. 1792; her d. 1847) |
Profession | Writer, translator, diplomat |
Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Militar service | |
Allegiance | ![]() |
Service/branch | Armée des Émigrés |
Years o service | 1792 |
Rank | Private |
Battles/wars | |
Writin career | |
Period | 19t century |
Genre | Novel, memoir, essay |
Subject | Releegion, exoticism, existentialism |
Leeterar muivement | Romanticism Conservatism |
Notable warks | |
Years active | 1793–1848 |