Friday, July 4, 2008

François-René de Chateaubriand died today – 160 years ago

Author (of René) François-René de Chateaubriand was born on September 4, 1768 in Saint-Malo. He said, “Aristocracy has three successive ages, — the age of superiorities, the age of privileges, and the age of vanities; having passed out of the first, it degenerates in the second, and dies away in the third." [Hmmm. Are we in one of them?]... Mr. Chateaubriand died on July 4, 1848 in Paris, France.

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