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François René Vicomte de de Chateaubriand

Also known as: François René Vicomte de de Chateaubriand; primary name: Chateaubriand, François René de; other name: Chateaubriand, François Auguste de; other name: De Chateaubriand, François René
Details: individual; author/poet; politician/statesman; French; Male
Life dates: 1768-1848
Biography: Writer and politician; author of 'Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe' and 'Le génie du Christianisme'. Joined the army, fighting on the royalist side, until wounded and exiled in 1792; lived in England during his exile and returned to France in 1800; elected to the Académie Française in 1811; rallied to the Bourbons in 1814; served as ambassador in various missions but retired from politics with the advent of the July Monachy (1830).
Bibliography: D.Wakefield in Burlington Magazine 1978 pp.13ff, on illustrations to his 'Atala'

47 related objects

banknote

Museum number: 2005,1049.208 |
Authority: BIOG103716 Issuer:Banque de France |
Production date: 1953 |
Production place: Issued in:France

print

Title: M. de Chateaubriand |
Museum number: 1900,1231.1034 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Hopwood the youngerAfter:Anne Louis Girodet-Trioson |
Production date: 1811-1850 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print

Title: Chateaubriand |
Museum number: 1927,0308.75 |
Producer name: Print made by:Gustave LévyAfter:Jean François Gigoux |
Production date: 1844-1894 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print

Title: Les funérailles d'Atala |
Museum number: 1871,0610.622 |
Producer name: After:Anne Louis Girodet-TriosonPrint made by:Nicolas Henri Jacob |
Production date: 1819 |
Production place: Printed in:Paris (France)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1900,1231.938 |
Producer name: Print made by:Philippus VelynIntermediary draughtsman:Springer |
Production date: 1823 |
Production place: Published in:Leiden

print; title-page

Museum number: 1900,1231.931 |
Producer name: Print made by:Philippus VelynIntermediary draughtsman:Springer |
Production date: 1825 |
Production place: Published in:Leiden

print

Title: La statue et les bas-reliefs du monument érigé à la memoire du général Foy |
Museum number: 1870,1008.927 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jean Marie LerouxAfter:David d'Angers |
Production date: 1831 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print

Title: Berceau & Tombe de Chateaubriand |
Museum number: 1923,0120.31 |
Producer name: Print made by:H LorettePrinted by:Landais & Oberthur |
Production date: 19thC |
Production place: Printed in:Rennes

print

Title: Atala |
Museum number: 1879,0809.582 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphaël Urbain MassardAfter:Anne Louis Girodet-Trioson |
Production date: 1822

print

Title: Baptême de S.A.R. Mr. le Duc de Bordeaux |
Museum number: 1871,0812.5312 |
Producer name: Print made by:VillainAfter:Charles Achille d'Hardivillier |
Production date: 1821

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1901,1022.137 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1810-1850

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1901,1022.133 |
Producer name: Print made by:Alfred JohannotAfter:Achille Devéria |
Production date: 1820-1837

print

Title: Atala |
Museum number: 1891,1013.66 |
Producer name: After:Pierre GautherotPrint made by:Etienne Frédéric Lignon |
Production date: 1810

print

Title: De Chateaubriand |
Museum number: 1901,1022.136 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Hopwood the youngerAfter:Anne Louis Girodet-Trioson |
Production date: 1811-1850

print; book-illustration

Title: S. A. R. le Duc de Bordeaux |
Museum number: 1901,1022.1023 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Hopwood the youngerIntermediary draughtsman:Louis Marckl |
Production date: 1835-1840 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print

Title: Les funérailles d'Atala |
Museum number: 1917,1208.1922 |
Producer name: After:Anne Louis Girodet-TriosonPrint made by:Nicolas Henri Jacob |
Production date: 1819 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)Printed in:Paris (France)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1900,1231.939 |
Producer name: Print made by:Philippus VelynIntermediary draughtsman:Springer |
Production date: 1825 |
Production place: Published in:Leiden

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Chateaubriand L'Artiste |
Museum number: 1949,0411.3213 |
Producer name: Print made by:Achille DevériaPrinted by:Lemercier & Cie |
Production date: 1831 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print

Title: La statue et les bas-reliefs du monument érigé à la memoire du général Foy |
Museum number: 1870,1008.924 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jean Marie LerouxAfter:David d'Angers |
Production date: 1831 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print

Title: La statue et les bas-reliefs du monument érigé à la memoire du général Foy |
Museum number: 1870,1008.928 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jean Marie LerouxAfter:David d'Angers |
Production date: 1831 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Chateaubriand |
Museum number: 2006,U.2375 |
Producer name: Block cut by:Auguste TrichonAfter:Aimé Millet |
Production date: 1875-1890

print

Title: Le Vicomte de Chateaubriand Pair de France |
Museum number: 1868,0808.2274 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jean Nicolas LaugierAfter:Anne Louis Girodet-Trioson |
Production date: 1817 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: M. le vicomte de Chateaubriand |
Museum number: 1920,1015.38 |
Producer name: Print made by:Robert CooperAfter:Anne Louis Girodet-Trioson |
Production date: 1823 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The Royal shambles or the progress of legitimacy & reestablishment of religion & social order-!!!-!! |
Museum number: 1859,0316.108 |
Producer name: Print made by:George CruikshankPublished by:William Hone |
Production date: 1816 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1900,1231.932 |
Producer name: Print made by:Philippus VelynIntermediary draughtsman:Springer |
Production date: 1823 |
Production place: Published in:Leiden

print

Title: Fr. Aug. de Chateaubriand |
Museum number: 1901,1022.135 |
Producer name: Print made by:J L BenoistAfter:Anne Louis Girodet-Trioson |
Production date: 1811-1850

print; book-illustration

Title: Louis XI |
Museum number: 1900,1231.1938 |
Producer name: Print made by:Pierre François BertonnierAfter:Louis Marckl |
Production date: 1836

print; satirical print

Title: Souvenirs de 1815. L'auteur affamé, dit Mr Boursouflé de Maison Terne |
Museum number: 1989,0930.65 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1815

print

Title: Autour de Madame Récamier |
Museum number: 1901,1022.1970 |
Producer name: After:Albert LynchPrint made by:François Courboin |
Production date: 1902

print

Title: François Auguste de Chateaubriand |
Museum number: 1917,1208.3819 |
Producer name: Print made by:Hyacinthe Louis Victor Jean Baptiste Aubry-LecomteAfter:Anne Louis Girodet-Trioson |
Production date: 1823

print

Title: M. de Chateaubriand |
Museum number: 1901,1022.134 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Hopwood the youngerAfter:Anne Louis Girodet-Trioson |
Production date: 1811-1850

print

Title: Atala |
Museum number: 1879,0809.581 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raphaël Urbain MassardAfter:Anne Louis Girodet-Trioson |
Production date: 1822 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print

Title: Chateaubriand |
Museum number: 1933,0318.7 |
Producer name: After:Anne Louis Girodet-TriosonPrinted by:Delpech |
Production date: 1818-1850

print; title-page

Museum number: 1900,1231.521 |
Producer name: Print made by:Philippus VelynIntermediary draughtsman:Springer |
Production date: 1826 |
Production place: Published in:Leiden

print; satirical print

Title: A Hint to the Blind and Foolish - or the Bourbon Dynasty in danger!! |
Museum number: 1935,0522.6.40 |
Producer name: Print made by:George CruikshankPublished by:John Fairburn |
Production date: 1823 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Hotel de France à St Malo où est né Chateaubriand |
Museum number: 1923,0120.32 |
Producer name: Print made by:H LorettePrinted by:Landais & Oberthur |
Production date: 19thC |
Production place: Printed in:Rennes

print; book

Title: Tombeau de Châteaubriand (Saint Malo) |
Museum number: 1866,0210.233 |
Producer name: Print made by:Bronislaw ZaleskiPrinted by:Auguste Delâtre |
Production date: 1865 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1900,1231.5837 |
Producer name: After:Eugène DevériaPrint made by:Jean Mathias Fontaine |
Production date: 1827

print; book of prints

Title: Scènes et Tableaux, tirés d'Atala |
Museum number: 1917,1208.65.1-6 |
Producer name: Print made by:Peter SimonAfter:Pierre Jérôme Lordon |
Production date: 1801

print

Title: Le Vicomte de Chateaubriand Pair de France |
Museum number: 1901,1022.138 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jean Nicolas LaugierAfter:Anne Louis Girodet-Trioson |
Production date: 1817 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print

Title: F. A. vicomte de Chateaubriand Galerie du Cabinet de lecture |
Museum number: 1901,1022.139 |
Producer name: Print made by:Bernard Romain JulienPrinted by:Aubert & Cie |
Production date: 1834 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print; title-page

Title: Lyre and Cornucopia |
Museum number: 1900,1231.520 |
Producer name: Print made by:Philippus VelynIntermediary draughtsman:Springer |
Production date: 1823 |
Production place: Published in:Leiden

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1975,0517.58 |
Producer name: After:Jean-Jacques FlatterPrint made by:Antoine François Gelée |
Production date: 1839 |
Production place: Printed in:Paris (France)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1975,0517.59 |
Producer name: After:Jean-Jacques FlatterPrint made by:Adrien Migneret |
Production date: 1805-1840 |
Production place: Printed in:Paris (France)

print; satirical print

Title: The royal shambles or the progress of legitimacy & reestablishment of religion & social order - !!! |
Museum number: 1868,0808.12816 |
Producer name: Print made by:George CruikshankPublished by:William Hone |
Production date: 1816 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The Mât de Cocagne- or Louis. 18th Supported by ye Allies!! |
Museum number: 1868,0808.12831 |
Producer name: BIOG63250 Print made by:George Cruikshank |
Production date: 1815 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Louis XVIII climbing the Mât de Cocagne |
Museum number: 1935,0522.11.61.b |
Producer name: Print made by:George CruikshankPublished by:William Hone |
Production date: 1815 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

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