CHATEAUBRIAND (vicomte de) - Itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem - Lot 379

CHATEAUBRIAND (vicomte de) - Itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem. Paris, Firmin Didot Frères, 1846; in-8, 377 + 420 pp. half-plum calf bindings, ornate smooth spines, speckled edges, spines stamped with the initials JMS. All 2 volumes. Three-volume edition, volumes 9, 10 and 11 of the complete works published by Pourrat Frères. François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand, born in Saint-Malo, was a French writer of the first half of the 19th century, a great innovator and one of the fathers of Romanticism. He left France in 1791 to travel to the New World, fleeing the revolutionary Old World. During his voyage, he also drafted his poem Les Natchez (1826; returned to Europe in 1792. He went into exile in England. He tried to demonstrate the beauties of the true Christian religion, which would be perverted by the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. Les Mémoires d'outre-tombe" is Chateaubriand's best-known text. Good condition.