CHATEAUBRIAND François-René de (1768-1848)

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CHATEAUBRIAND François-René de (1768-1848)
Writer, Peer of France, diplomat (ambassador in Berlin in 1821, London in 1822, Rome in 1828-29), Minister of Foreign Affairs (1823-1824). L.A. [to the Duchess of Duras]. Saturday, December 20 [21] [1811]. 4 pp in-8. Belles Lettres on his tragedy MOÏSE "You have received, dear sister, a letter from me which has proved to you that I have not forgotten you. Is that possible? But I have a new sorrow. It is not enough of my ordinary persecutions, here is a very unexpected one. I am torn from my retirement, guess why? to be a juror in Paris. No way to escape. 500 pounds fine and prison in case of refusal [...]". He evokes his tragedy Moses "Thus [...] to make die my Arzane, it is necessary that I go to condemn some unhappy ones of the royal Palace [...] you will not find my subject in the Bible [...]" he continues by evoking verses and his next displacements "I will leave the valley of today in eight" ...
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