Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb
$40.06
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
26 March 2014
Summary
The most enjoyable, glamorous and gripping of all 19th century autobiographies - a tumultuous account of France hit by wave after wave of revolutions.
Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb is the greatest and most influential of all French autobiographies - an extraordinary, highly entertaining account of a uniquely adventurous and frenzied life. Chateaubriand gives a superb narrative of the major events of his life - which spanned the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Era and the une…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141393124 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141393122 |
| Author: | François-René de Chateaubriand |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 26 March 2014 |
| Weight: | 318g |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 129mm x 197mm |
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François-René de Chateaubriand
Philip Mansel is one of Britain’s leading historians of France and the Middle East. His previous books include Louis XVIII (1981), The Eagle in Splendour: Napoleon and his Court (1987), The Court of France: 1789-1830 (1988), Paris Between Empires, 1814-1852 (2001) and Dressed to Rule: Royal and Court Costume from Louis XIV to Elizabeth II (2005).
He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Royal Society of Literature, the Institute of Historical Research, and the Royal Asiatic Society. In 1995, he was a co-founder of the Society for Court Studies, whose journal, The Court Historian, he edited for twenty years.
He is President of the Conseil Scientifique at the Centre de Recherche du Ch teau de Versailles and a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 2012, he received the London Library Life in Literature Award.
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