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François-René de Chateaubriand

1768 - 1848

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François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand (4 September 1768 – 4 July 1848) was a French writer, politician, diplomat and historian who influenced French literature of the nineteenth century. Descended from an old aristocratic family from Brittany, Chateaubriand was a royalist by political disposition. In an age when large numbers of intellectuals turned against the Church, he authored the Génie du christianisme in defense of the Catholic faith. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of François-René de Chateaubriand has received more than 984,550 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). François-René de Chateaubriand is the 173rd most popular writer (up from 185th in 2019), the 211th most popular biography from France (up from 225th in 2019) and the 37th most popular French Writer.

François-René de Chateaubriand is most famous for his memoirs.

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Notable Works

René
1815
Les martyrs
1800
Itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem
1856
Les Natchez
1838
Atala
1788
Mémoires d'outre-tombe
1925

Among WRITERS

Among writers, François-René de Chateaubriand ranks 173 out of 7,302. Before him are H. G. Wells, Pindar, Yasunari Kawabata, Orhan Pamuk, Karel Čapek, and Pliny the Younger. After him are Wisława Szymborska, Taras Shevchenko, Luigi Pirandello, Svetlana Alexievich, J. D. Salinger, and Osamu Dazai.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1768, François-René de Chateaubriand ranks 4. Before him are Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, Joseph Fourier, and Joseph Bonaparte. After him are Charlotte Corday, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Frederick VI of Denmark, Karađorđe, Louis Desaix, Caroline of Brunswick, Lazare Hoche, and Marie-Guillemine Benoist. Among people deceased in 1848, François-René de Chateaubriand ranks 4. Before him are Emily Brontë, Jöns Jacob Berzelius, and Gaetano Donizetti. After him are George Stephenson, John Quincy Adams, Christian VIII of Denmark, Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt, Bernard Bolzano, Caroline Herschel, Vissarion Belinsky, and Nicolas Oudinot.

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In France

Among people born in France, François-René de Chateaubriand ranks 211 out of 6,770. Before him are Nicolas Sarkozy (1955), Jean Marais (1913), Jean-Luc Godard (1930), Roland Barthes (1915), Margaret of Valois (1553), and Charles IV of France (1294). After him are Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663), Pope Clement IV (1190), Pope Urban IV (1185), Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789), Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan (1611), and André Breton (1896).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, François-René de Chateaubriand ranks 37. Before him are Alexandre Dumas fils (1824), Petronius (27), Jean Racine (1639), Annie Ernaux (1940), Cyrano de Bergerac (1619), and Nicolas Flamel (1330). After him are André Breton (1896), Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894), Stéphane Mallarmé (1842), Maurice Leblanc (1864), Pierre Corneille (1606), and Prosper Mérimée (1803).

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