![]() ![]() ![]() The incidents of his life are all interwoven with politics and the tremendous changes brought about by the French Revolution and the First Empire. Soldier, diplomat, statesman, one of the foremost authors of nineteenth-century French literature, initiator of the nineteenth-century genre of travel literature to the Middle East, memorializer and translator of Milton's Paradise Lost, François-René Chateaubriand was intimately associated with an age of great upheaval and transformation and may be considered as representative of the currents of thoughts and sentiments of his time. CHATEAUBRIAND, FRANÇOIS-RENÉ (1768–1848), French statesman and writer ![]()
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