François-René de Chateaubriand
French writer, 1768-1848
"Chateaubriand was a French writer, politician, diplomat, and historian, who is considered the founder of Romanticism in French literature. Descended from an old aristocratic family from Brittany, Chateaubriand was a royalist by political disposition; in an age when a number of intellectuals turned against the Church, he authored the Génie du christianisme in defense of the Catholic faith. His works include the autobiography Mémoires d'outre-tombe (""Memoirs from Beyond the Grave"", published posthumously in 1849–1850)."
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French writer, politician, diplomat, and historian, who is considered the founder of Romanticism in French literature. Autograph letter signed. Rome. 8vo. 4pp.
$ 10,902 / 9.500 €
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To the Marquis de Boissy. Important letter on the end of his embassy in Rome, and his eventual appointment as Minister of Foreign Affairs: „Je suis fâché que vous n’ayiez pas répondu à M. le Cte Portalis [i. e. the Minister of Foreign Affairs] que la question n’étoit pas pour moi d’un ministre qui me fût agréable ou désagréable. Tout simplement je m’en tiens strictement aux termes de mes arrangements. Quel que soit le ministre des affaires étrangères, je me retire. Hors le seul cas d’une nouvelle combinaison ministérielle pour laquelle j’aurois été consulté et à laquelle j’aurois consenti.
Je m’en tiens là. Je ne profiterai point de mon congé. Je ne veux point aller me perdre au milieu de partis qui ont fait tant de sottises, postuler un ministère que je ne desire pas et qu’on ne me donnerait pas, jeter ensuite ma demission aux pieds du Roi par dépit. Tout cela n’est ni assez prudent pour ma vieille expérience, ni assez grave pour mon âge, ni assez digne pour mon caractère. Aussitôt qu’un ministre des affaires etrangeres aura été nommé, je quitte Rome avec mon congé je viens expliquer et rappeler au Roi la condition premiere et capitale de mon acceptation de l’ambassade de Rome et je le supplie de me permettre d’aller m’ensevelir dans mon infirmerie. Voila monsieur, ce que je vous prie dire aux ministres de ma part et à tous mes amis. Reduisez je vous en prie toutes vos démarches à cela ou plutôt ne faites aucune démarche [...]“..
(1768-1848). L.A., Fontainebleau 7 novembre 1834, à sa femme la Vicomtesse de Chateaubriand à Paris. 3/4 page in-8, adresse.
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„Encore deux jours, chère amie, et je t’embrasserai. Attends moi donc Lundi et si par hazard j’avois tout vu avant, tu pourrois bien me voir arriver plutôt. Je suis inquiet de ta semaine, de toutes tes tribulations et surtout de ta santé. Le voyage comme toujours m’a fait un bien infini“
écrivain romantique et homme politique français (1768-1848). L.A., à sa femme la Vicomtesse de Chateaubriand à Paris. Thibouville. 1 page in-8, adresse autographe.
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Séjour à Thibouville auprès de Madame Récamier. Il est arrivé «bien portant et par le plus beau temps du monde. Je vais aller maintenant à travers les prairies, voir les hôtes de la chapelle St Éloi [Mme Récamier]. Je tembrasse. Je tai écrit dÉvreux où jai couché hier, par la Diligence»
écrivain romantique et homme politique français (1768-1848). Autograph letter. Lonné. 3 pp. in-8, adresse.
$ 5,164 / 4.500 €
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Picturesque letter to Madame de Pisieux after a sojourn at Montgraham. - Somewhat browned and wrinkled.
French poet and statesman (1768-1848). 1 autograph letter signed and 1 letter signed. Geneva and n. p. 8vo. Together 2 pp.
$ 5,164 / 4.500 €
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In the earlier letter Chateaubriand asks his secretary Hyacinthe Pilorge to strike a sentence from a forthcoming publication "if there is still time". Chateaubriand had contributed a text to a collection of articles published in 1831 by Pierre-François Ladvocat under the title "Paris ou le Livre des Cent-et-un". The text is a response to a poem by Pierre-Jean de Béranger entitled "Chanson à M. de Chateaubriand" that calls Chateaubriand to end his voluntary exile following the July Revolution and his refusal to pledge allegiance to King Louis-Philippe and the House of Orléans.
The first stanza of the chanson that precedes Chateaubriand's response in Ladvocat's publication reads: "Chateaubriand, why flee your country, | Flee its love, our incense and our care? | Don't you hear France crying out: | My beautiful sky is crying for one less star". Chateaubriand's sentence that ultimately wasn't printed is a somewhat ambiguous comment on the contrast between Béranger's contemporary subject and his style: "If your subjects are of the moment, your style isn't; in the anarchy of the new school." He announces his arrival in Paris for the 16 October and asks Pilorge to try to delay the publication until then. - The letter from 15 March 1842 is written in Pilorge's hand and addressed to an unnamed vicar. Apparently, the recipient had asked Chateaubriand for authorization of a translation of his 1809 poem Les Martyrs to Spanish on behalf of the cleric and theologian Justo Barbagero. Chateaubriand gives the answer that the vicar "desires" and hopes that "Barbagero is content", although he seems to put the auspices of the project in question when he adds that he has "no trust" in his name. The letter is generally melancholic, Chateaubriand informs the recipient that he was barely able "to sign the lines" that he had dictated to Pilorges because of his gout and closes with the expectation of his nearing death: "Unfortunately, you won't be right and I consider the rest of my life as lost: all the better, it is a few hours more to my profit as a Christian." - Justo Barbagero's translation of Les Martyrs was published in Burgos in 1845. - The autograph letter with a deap tear to the right margin affecting the text..