François-René de Chateaubriand, De la restauration et de la monarchie élective (1831)
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I am Bourbon as a matter of honour, royalist according to reason and conviction, and republican by taste and character.
— François-René de Chateaubriand on House of Bourbon
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About François-René de Chateaubriand
François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand (4 September 1768 – 4 July 1848) was a French writer, politician and diplomat, considered the founder of Romanticism in French literature.
About François-René de Chateaubriand
François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand (4 September 1768 – 4 July 1848) was a French writer, politician and diplomat, considered the founder of Romanticism in French literature.
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