Chateaubriand, entre la plume et le crucifix
Chateaubriand between the quill and the crucifix

Summary/Abstract: At the time of the publication of his first notable work, Essai sur les révolutions (1797), Chateaubriand is in exile in London. In France, its appearance on stage is signaled by the immediate celebrity that he knows thanks to his short Indian novel of Atala. This first success authorizes him to continue the next year, to try everything. In 1802, Chateaubriand publishes Génie du christianisme. It was a stroke of luck and a stroke of genius! The author seizes the opportunity to occupy the vacant box of the official writer of the restoration of Christianity, strongly shaken by the Revolution. All its career will be organized around this suddenly discovered vocation. The character of Chateaubriand has the revelation, of nothing/not at all announced, of its role, to which he will devote and sacrifice everything. To start with his emblematic hero, Rene. But let us not anticipate…

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