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 OLH, KOESSH, KOSL, KOSM
File:Portrait of Francois René Vicomte de Chateaubriand, 1828.jpg 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(1768-09-04) Saint-Malo, Brittany, Fraunce
Dee'd	4 Julie 1848(1848-07-04) (aged 79) Paris, Seine, Fraunce
Spoose(s)	Céleste Buisson de la Vigne (m. 1792; her d. 1847)
Profession	Writer, translator, diplomat
Religion	Roman Catholicism
Militar service
Allegiance	Kinrick o Fraunce
Service/branch	Armée des Émigrés
Years o service	1792
Rank	Private
Battles/wars	French Revolutionary Wars Siege o Thionville
Writin career
Period	19t century
Genre	Novel, memoir, essay
Subject	Releegion, exoticism, existentialism
Leeterar muivement	Romanticism Conservatism
Notable warks	Atala Génie du christianisme René Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
Years active	1793–1848