French writer born in Saint-Malo, Brittany, one of the first romantic writers in France, exerting a profound influence on the youth of his time. His father, an eccentric man, bought the title of count and the castle of Combourg, where the future writer spent his childhood and part of his youth, shortly before the ruin. When the French Revolution broke out, he was a cavalry officer, refused to fight for the crown and left for the United States (1791), where he lived with fur traders and Indians.
He returned to France and soon went to live in England (1793-1800) and where he wrote Essai sur les révolutions (1797), in which he expounded some of the rationalist arguments employed by the Enlightenment against religion Christian. With the death of his mother (1799) he lived a deep religious crisis, but he reconciled rationalist thinking with Christianity. He returned to Paris and the following year published Atala (1801). He entered the diplomatic career (1803) as first secretary of the French embassy in Rome, a post from which he resigned due to differences with the Bonapartist regime. In 1811 he was elected to the French Academy.
After the monarchic restoration in France, he became ambassador to Berlin and London, as well as foreign minister. He dedicated his last years to Madame Récamier, with whom he lived a passionate affair and died in Paris. Mémories d'outre-tombe (1841), was considered his greatest work. Part of his literary work was also important for describing the exotic customs of America and the Indians, including influencing the Brazilian indigenous novelists.
Source: http://www.dec.ufcg.edu.br/biografias/
Order F - Biography - Brazil School
Source: Brazil School - https://brasilescola.uol.com.br/biografia/francois-auguste-rene-chateaubriand.htm
