Chateaubriand
by George D. Painter
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1527. Chateaubriand: A Biography Volume I (1768-93) The Longed-For Tempests, by George D. Painter (read 11 July 1979)(James Tait Black Memorial biography prize for 1977) When I read this book in July of 1979 I said: "This is the first volume of the only full scale biography of Chateaubriand in any language. It covers his ancestry (from 1066!), his birth on Sept 4, 1768, and his life up to 1793, including his experience in the Revolution and his trip to the US. I much like Chateaubriand's flamboyant language, and much of this book echoes it. It is a good book. I wish the other two volumes were published." I have never seen anything of subsequent volumes, and do not know if they exist. Does anyone?
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- Chateaubriand
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- 1978
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- François-René de Chateaubriand; George Washington
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- Fiction and Literature, Biography & Memoir, Literature Studies and Criticism
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- 848.6 — Literature & rhetoric French Literature French miscellaneous writings Revolution and empire 1789–1815
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- PQ2205 .Z5 .P34 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures French literature Modern literature 19th century
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