In an age when large numbers of intellectuals turned against the church, he authored the. He was the preeminent literary figure in france in the early 19th century and had a profound influence on the youth of his day. He is considered the founder of romanticism in french literature In art and literature, it stressed strong emotion as a source of aesthetic experience. After an isolated adolescence, spent largely in his father’s castle, he moved to paris not long before the revolution began. For a brief time, the revolutionaries succeeded brilliantly, decimating a fair portion of the french aristocracy with the help of the common people, sympathetic military, and the quick work of madame guillotine
Chateaubriand recalls being in a rented parisian hôtel de particulier immediately after king louis xvi had been executed.
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