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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 923,031 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2019). François-René de Chateaubriand is the 185th most popular writer (down from 174th in 2019), the 225th most popular biography from France (down from 197th in 2019) and the 36th most popular French Writer.

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

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, François-René de Chateaubriand ranks 185 out of 5,755. Before him are Constantine VII, John the Evangelist, Juvenal, Mansur Al-Hallaj, Georges Simenon, and Sigrid Undset. After him are John Steinbeck, Orhan Pamuk, Mario Vargas Llosa, Svetlana Alexievich, Quintilian, and Snorri Sturluson.

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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, Frederick VI of Denmark, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Karađorđe, Louis Desaix, Jean-Baptiste Bessières, Édouard Mortier, Duke of Trévise, and Caroline of Brunswick. Among people deceased in 1848, François-René de Chateaubriand ranks 5. Before him are Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Gaetano Donizetti, George Stephenson, and Emily Brontë. After him are John Quincy Adams, Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt, Christian VIII of Denmark, Bernard Bolzano, Caroline Herschel, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, and María Isabella of Spain.

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In France

Among people born in France, François-René de Chateaubriand ranks 225 out of 6,011. Before him are Nicolas Sarkozy (1955), Philip V of France (1293), Francis de Sales (1567), Charles Fourier (1772), Gilles Deleuze (1925), and Pope Urban VI (1318). After him are Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900), Philip III of France (1245), Charlotte Corday (1768), Pope Leo IX (1002), Jean-Michel Jarre (1948), and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, François-René de Chateaubriand ranks 36. Before him are Jean Cocteau (1889), Guy de Maupassant (1850), Charles Baudelaire (1821), André Breton (1896), Jean Racine (1639), and Petronius (27). After him are Stéphane Mallarmé (1842), Colette (1873), Pierre Corneille (1606), Maurice Leblanc (1864), Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894), and François de La Rochefoucauld (1613).

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