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The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 1 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe, volume 1

Birth of my brothers and sisters--My own birth--Plancoët--I am vowed--Combourg--My father's scheme of education for me--Villeneuve--Lucile--Mesdemoiselles Couppart--I am a bad pupil--The life led by my maternal grandmother and her sister at Plancoët--My uncle, the Comte de Bed...

Chapters

13. BOOK VI[427

In London as Ambassador--I cross the ocean--François Tulloch--Christopher Columbus--Camoëns--The Azores--The isle of Graciosa--Sports on board ship--The isle of Saint-Pierre--Th...

12. BOOK V[218

Stay in Brittany--In garrison at Dieppe--I return to Paris with Lucile and Julie--Delisle de Sales--Men of letters--Portraits--The Rosanbo family--M. de Malesherbes--His predile...

8. BOOK II[75

A note from M. Pasquier--Dieppe--Change in my education--Spring in Brittany--An historic forest--Pelagian fields--The moon setting over the sea--Departure for Combourg--Descript...

7. BOOK I[1

Birth of my brothers and sisters--My own birth-Plancoët--I am vowed--Combourg--My father's scheme of education for me--Villeneuve--Lucile--Mesdemoiselles Couppart--I am a bad pu...

11. BOOK IV[176

Berlin--Potsdam--Frederic the Great--My brother--My cousin Moreau--My sister, the Comtesse de Farcy--Julie a worldly woman--Dinner--Pommereul--Madame de Chastenay--Cambrai--The...

10. did. We spent days in mutual consultation, in communicating to each

other what we had done and what we proposed to do. We undertook works in common; guided by our instincts, we translated the finest and saddest passages in Job and Lucretius upon...

9. BOOK III[147

At Montboissier--Reminiscences of Combourg--Dinan College--Broussais--I return home--Life at Combourg--Our days and evenings--My donjon--Change from childhood to manhood--Lucile...

6. BOOK VI

In London as Ambassador--I cross the ocean--François Tulloch--Christopher Columbus--Camoëns--The Azores--The isle of Graciosa--Sports on board ship--The isle of Saint-Pierre--Th...

5. BOOK V

Stay in Brittany--In garrison at Dieppe--I return to Paris with Lucile and Julie--Delisle de Sales--Men of letters--Portraits--The Rosanbo family--M. de Malesherbes--His predile...

2. BOOK II

A note from M. Pasquier--Dieppe--Change in my education--Spring in Brittany--An historic forest--Pelagian fields--The moon setting over the sea--Departure for Combourg--Descript...

3. BOOK III

At Montboissier--Reminiscences of Combourg--Dinan College--Broussais--I return home--Life at Combourg--Our days and evenings--My donjon--Change from childhood to manhood--Lucile...

4. BOOK IV

Berlin--Potsdam--Frederic the Great--My brother--My cousin Moreau--My sister, the Comtesse de Farcy--Julie a worldly woman--Dinner--Pommereul--Madame de Chastenay--Cambrai--The...

1. BOOK I

Birth of my brothers and sisters--My own birth--Plancoët--I am vowed--Combourg--My father's scheme of education for me--Villeneuve--Lucile--Mesdemoiselles Couppart--I am a bad p...