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François rené de chateaubriand rené5/22/2023 In the end, though, obliged by poverty in old age “to pawn my tomb,” as he lamented, the memoirs appeared soon after he died in 1848, at the age of 79, in Paris. Today he is best remembered for his “Memoirs From Beyond the Grave,” a gigantic 42-volume work intended for publication only 50 years after his death. In his lifetime, François-René de Chateaubriand won renown as a politician, diplomat, novelist and travel writer. MEMOIRS FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE, 1768-1800 By François-René de Chateaubriand Translated by Alex Andriesse 550 pp.
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