Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb - François-René de Chateaubriand

Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb

By François-René de Chateaubriand

  • Release Date: 2014-02-06
  • Genre: Biographies & Memoirs

Description

The most enjoyable, glamorous and gripping of all 19th-century autobiographies - a tumultuous account of France hit by wave after wave of revolutions

Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb is the greatest and most influential of all French autobiographies - an extraordinary, highly entertaining account of a uniquely adventurous and frenzied life. Chateaubriand gives a superb narrative of the major events of his life - which spanned the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Era and the uneasy period that led up to the Revolution of 1830.