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Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1815 -1830

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Full Title:

Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1815 -1830

Contributors:

By (Author) Franois-Rne Chateaubriand
By (author) Alex Andriesse

ISBN:

9781681379616

Publisher:

New York Review Books

Imprint:

NYRB Classics

Publication Date:

16th December 2025

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

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Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

640

Dimensions:

Width 127mm, Height 203mm

Description

The third part of the epic autobiography of Chateaubriand, the aristocratic Frenchman who lived through the beginning of the French Revolution and who would become the founder of the Romantic movement in Europe, now in a new, unabridged English translation-the first in a century. The third part of the epic autobiography of Chateaubriand, the aristocratic Frenchman who lived through the beginning of the French Revolution and who would become the founder of the Romantic movement in Europe, now in a new, unabridged English translation-the first in a century. In 1815-with Bonaparte on the isle of Elba and the Napoleonic era at an end-Fran ois-Rene de Chateaubriand seemed poised, like the Bourbon royal family he'd so long supported, to wield unprecedented power in France. Already one of the country's most celebrated writers, he now became an ambassador (with posts in Berlin, London, and Rome) and, for a time, minister of foreign affairs. Yet as passionate as Chateaubriand was about the cause of the Bourbons in theory, in reality he was a recalcitrant subject. Part liberal, part ultraconservative, a warmonger with his head in the clouds, he quarreled with both Louis XVIII and Charles X and eventually tendered his resignation altogether, just in time for the July Revolution, which brought the Restoration to a close and allowed Chateaubriand to go back to praising the Bourbons, now safely exiled in the realm of the ideal. As always in Memoirs from Beyond the Grave, Chateaubriand narrates the events of his era unforgettably. His accounts of international politics, and the papal conclave, and the revolutionary strife of 1830 (so different from the revolutionary strife of his youth) are gripping. His digressions, however, are the main event, and readers will be glad to find him wandering around Paris and Rome, reflecting on storms and ruins, moonlight and mortality.

Author Bio

Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand (1768-1848) was born in Saint-Malo, on the northern coast of Brittany, the youngest son of an aristocratic family. Long recognized as one of the first French Romantics, Chateaubriand was also a historian, diplomat, and staunch defender of the freedom of the press. He is best remembered for his posthumously published Memoirs from Beyond the Grave. Alex Andriesse's essays and poems have appeared in Granta, Review of Contemporary Fiction, and Literary Imagination. His translations include Roberto Bazlen's Notes Without a Text and Other Writings and Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand's Memoirs from Beyond the Grave- 1768-1800 and 1800-15, both of which are also available from NYRB Classics. He lives in the Netherlands.

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