François received his education at Dol and Rennes, where Jean Victor Moreau was among his fellow-students.
His closest friend was his sister Lucile, a passionate-hearted girl, divided between her devotion to him and to religion. His naturally poetical temperament was fostered in childhood by picturesque influences, the mysterious reserve of his morose father, the ardent piety of his mother, the traditions of his ancient family, the legends and antiquated customs of the sequestered Breton district, above all, the vagueness and solemnity of the neighboring ocean. He was a brilliant representative of the reaction against the ideas of the French Revolution, and the most conspicuous figure in French literature during the First Empire. Malo, FranceĮxecutive summary: Génie du christianismeįrançois-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand, French author, youngest son of René Auguste de Chateaubriand, comte de Combourg, was born at St.
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