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Memoirs From Beyond the Grave
François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand
- Form
- Form Autobiography
- Year
- Year 1849
- Originally in
- Originally in French
- Pages
- Pages 1100
A statesman and writer sets down the whole of his life, from a lonely childhood in Brittany through revolution, exile and empire, in a memoir he forbids anyone to read until he is safely dead.
though he may crush the present, the past defies him, and I remain free in all that precedes his glory.
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