François-René de Chateaubriand, French historian and politician (born 1768)

François-René de Chateaubriand

French writer, politician and historian (1768–1848)

François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand 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…