François-René de CHATEAUBRIAND
François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand.
Born on 4 September 1768 in Saint-Malo, Brittany, France.
Died on 4 July 1848 in Paris, France.
Wikipedia: English,
French.
Categories: Novels,
Novellas,
Theatre,
Poems,
Travel Memoirs,
General Essays and Texts,
Historical and Biographical Works,
Political Works,
Autobiography,
References.
Detail from the portrait by Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson (1809).
NOVELS
Les martyrs (1809).
Full title: Les martyrs, ou Le triomphe de la religion chrétienne. Written from 1804 to 1808. Published in Paris by Le Normant on 27 March 1809.
French: 1809, vol. 1 and
vol. 2 (1st edition);
1810, vol. 1,
vol. 2 and
vol. 3 (3rd edition);
1826–1827, vol. 1,
vol. 2 and
vol. 3 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
English: The martyrs, or The triumph of the Christian religion, vol. 1,
vol. 2 and
vol. 3 (William Joseph Walter, 1812;
also published as The two martyrs in 1819 and 1822; entirely revised and completed
by Orlando Williams Wight in 1859; see also
1878).
Les Natchez (1826).
Written in 1797–1798. Revised in 1826. Published in Paris by Ladvocat in December 1826, in volumes 19 and 20 of the Œuvres complètes.
French: 1826, vol. 1 and
vol. 2 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
English: The Natchez, vol. 1,
vol. 2 and
vol. 3 (anonymous, 1827;
includes René and Atala; 2nd edition in 1832 as
Celuta, or The Natchez, vol. 1,
vol. 2 and
vol. 3).
NOVELLAS
Atala (1801).
Full title: Atala, ou Les amours de deux sauvages dans le désert. Written in 1797–1798, as an episode of Les Natchez. Published in Paris by Migneret on 2 April 1801. Having lost proofs of this story intended as a part of Génie du christianisme, Chateaubriand decided to publish it before his large work, to prevent a counterfeit edition. Included in Génie du christianisme in 1802. Published separately with René in May 1805. Removed from Génie du christianisme after 1809.
French: 1801 (1st edition);
1801 (3rd edition, revised);
1801 (4th edition);
1801 (5th edition);
1802 (6th edition, Génie du christianisme);
1803 (7th edition, Génie du christianisme);
1803 (8th edition, Génie du christianisme);
1804 (11th edition, Génie du christianisme);
1805 (12th edition, Le Normant, revised);
1826 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat);
1857 (Œuvres complètes, Dufour, Mulat et Boulanger);
1863 (illustrated by Gustave Doré);
1885 (Bachelin-Deflorenne);
1892 (illustrated by Gambard, Marold and Rossi).
English: Atala, or The amours of two Indians in the wilds of America (anonymous, 1801, ed. 1802);
— Atala, or The love and constancy of two savages in the desert (Caleb Bingham, 1802, ed. 1814);
— Atala (anonymous, London: Robinson, 1802);
— Atala, or The amours of two savages in the desert (anonymous, 1813);
— Atala, or Two Indians in the desert (Richard Marshall, 1817);
— Atala (anonymous, 1817; pages 58–59 are missing;
republished in 1818 as The interesting history of Atala, the beautiful Indian of the Mississippi);
— Atala (anonymous, 1827; without prologue and epilogue;
see also 1832);
— Atala (anonymous, 1844);
— Atala (M. J. Smead and H. P. Lefebvre, 1844);
— Atala, part 1,
part 2,
part 3,
part 4,
part 5 and
part 6 (“junior editor” of The Western Journal and Civilian, 1851–1852);
— Atala (James Spence Harry, 1867; illustrated by Gustave Doré;
see also 1889 and
1891);
— Atala: A love tale (Gerard, 1873; in verse);
— Atala (anonymous, 1893; illustrated by Gambard, Marold and Rossi);
— Atala (anonymous, 1909);
— Atala (Irving Putter, 1952);
— Atala (Rayner Heppenstall, 1963);
— Atala (Colin Smethurst, 1995);
— Atala (A. S. Kline, 2010).
René (1802).
Written in 1797–1798, as an episode of Les Natchez. Published in Paris by Migneret on 14 April 1802, as part of Génie du christianisme. Published separately with Atala in May 1805. Removed from Génie du christianisme after 1809.
French: 1802 (1st edition, Génie du christianisme);
1802 (counterfeit edition, titled René, ou Les effets des passions;
see Saillard in the References);
1803 (2nd edition, Génie du christianisme);
1803 (3rd edition, Génie du christianisme);
1804 (6th edition, Génie du christianisme);
1805 (7th edition, Le Normant, revised);
1826 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat);
1857 (Œuvres complètes, Dufour, Mulat et Boulanger);
1885 (Bachelin-Deflorenne);
1925 (illustrated by Malo-Renault).
English: René: A tale (anonymous, London, 1813);
— René: A tale (anonymous, Boston, 1815; possibly identical to 1813);
— René (anonymous, 1827;
without introduction and conclusion, inserted in The Natchez;
see also 1832);
— René (Irving Putter, 1952);
— René (Rayner Heppenstall, 1963);
— René (Colin Smethurst, 1995);
— René (A. S. Kline, 2011).
Les aventures du dernier Abencerage (1826).
Written in 1810. Published in Paris by Ladvocat in 1826, in volume 16 of the Œuvres complètes.
French: 1826 (1st edition, Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat);
1826 (1st separate edition, London);
1857 (Œuvres complètes, Dufour, Mulat et Boulanger);
1885 (Bachelin-Deflorenne).
English: Aben-Hamet, the last of the Abencerages (anonymous, 1826);
— The last of the Abencerages (Isabel Hill, 1835);
— The adventures of the last Abencerrage (H. W. Carter, 1870);
— The last of the Abencerrages (anonymous, 1909);
— The last Abencerage (Edith Nuttall, 1922).
THEATRE
Moïse (1831).
Tragedy in verse, in five acts. Written from May 1811 to May 1812, and revised over the following two decades. Published in Paris by Ladvocat in 1831, in the supplement to volume 22 of the Œuvres complètes, which had appeared in 1828.
French: 1831 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Astyanax (unfinished).
Tragedy in verse. Only the plan and a few scenes were written.
POEMS
L’amour de la campagne (1790).
Published in the Almanach des muses of 1790. Printed in volume 22 of the Œuvres complètes in 1828 as No. 9 of the Tableaux de la nature written in 1784–1789.
French: 1790 (Almanach des muses);
1828 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Les tombeaux champêtres (1797).
Imitation in verse of Thomas Gray’s Elegy written in a country churchyard (1751). Written in London in 1796. Published in London in the magazine Paris pendant l’année 1797 of 11 December 1797.
French: 1797 (Paris pendant l’année 1797);
1828 (Le Mercure de France au dix-neuvième siècle);
1828 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
La forêt (1802).
Published in the magazine Mercure de France of 7 messidor an X (26 June 1802). Printed in volume 22 of the Œuvres complètes in 1828 as No. 2 of the Tableaux de la nature written in 1784–1789.
French: 1802 (Mercure de France);
1828 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Dargo (1828).
Free translation in verse of Dargo from John Smith’s Galic [Gaelic] antiquities (1780). Published in Paris by Ladvocat in 1828, in volume 22 of the Œuvres complètes.
French: 1828 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Duthona (1828).
Free translation in verse of Duthona from John Smith’s Galic [Gaelic] antiquities (1780). Published in Paris by Ladvocat in 1828, in volume 22 of the Œuvres complètes.
French: 1828 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Gaul (1828).
Free translation in verse of Gaul from John Smith’s Galic [Gaelic] antiquities (1780). Published in Paris by Ladvocat in 1828, in volume 22 of the Œuvres complètes.
French: 1828 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Invocation (1828).
Published in Paris by Ladvocat in 1828, in volume 22 of the Œuvres complètes, as No. 1 of the Tableaux de la nature written in 1784–1789.
French: 1828 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Le soir, au bord de la mer (1828).
Published in Paris by Ladvocat in 1828, in volume 22 of the Œuvres complètes, as No. 3 of the Tableaux de la nature written in 1784–1789.
French: 1828 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Le soir, dans une vallée (1828).
Published in Paris by Ladvocat in 1828, in volume 22 of the Œuvres complètes, as No. 4 of the Tableaux de la nature written in 1784–1789.
French: 1828 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Nuit de printemps (1828).
Published in Paris by Ladvocat in 1828, in volume 22 of the Œuvres complètes, as No. 5 of the Tableaux de la nature written in 1784–1789.
French: 1828 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Nuit d’automne (1828).
Published in Paris by Ladvocat in 1828, in volume 22 of the Œuvres complètes, as No. 6 of the Tableaux de la nature written in 1784–1789.
French: 1828 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Le printemps, l’été et l’hiver (1828).
Published in Paris by Ladvocat in 1828, in volume 22 of the Œuvres complètes, as No. 7 of the Tableaux de la nature written in 1784–1789.
French: 1828 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
La mer (1828).
Published in Paris by Ladvocat in 1828, in volume 22 of the Œuvres complètes, as No. 8 of the Tableaux de la nature written in 1784–1789.
French: 1828 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Les adieux (1828).
Published in Paris by Ladvocat in 1828, in volume 22 of the Œuvres complètes, as No. 10 of the Tableaux de la nature written in 1784–1789.
French: 1828 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
À Lydie (1828).
Subtitle: Imitation d’Alcée, poète grec. Written in London in 1797, in the style of Horace’s odes imitated from Alcaeus. Published in Paris by Ladvocat in 1828, in volume 22 of the Œuvres complètes.
French: 1828 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Milton et Davenant (1828).
Written in London in 1797. Published in Paris by Ladvocat in 1828, in volume 22 of the Œuvres complètes.
French: 1828 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Clarisse (1828).
Subtitle: Imitation d’un poète écossais. Written in London in 1797. Published in Paris by Ladvocat in 1828, in volume 22 of the Œuvres complètes.
French: 1828 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
L’esclave (1828).
Written in Tunis in 1807. Published in Paris by Ladvocat in 1828, in volume 22 of the Œuvres complètes.
French: 1828 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Nous verrons (1828).
Written in Paris in 1810. Published in Paris by Ladvocat in 1828, in volume 22 of the Œuvres complètes.
French: 1828 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Peinture de Dieu (1828).
Subtitle: Tiré de l’Écriture. Written in Paris in 1810. Published in Paris by Ladvocat in 1828, in volume 22 of the Œuvres complètes.
French: 1828 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Pour le mariage de mon neveu (1828).
Written at the Château du Mesnil, near Mantes, in 1812. Published in Paris by Ladvocat in 1828, in volume 22 of the Œuvres complètes.
French: 1828 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Pour la fête de madame de *** (1828).
Written at the Château de Verneuil-sur-Seine in 1812. Published in Paris by Ladvocat in 1828, in volume 22 of the Œuvres complètes.
French: 1828 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Vers trouvés sur le pont du Rhône (1828).
Written in 1812. Published in Paris by Ladvocat in 1828, in volume 22 of the Œuvres complètes.
French: 1828 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Ode : Les malheurs de la révolution (1828).
Written in Paris in 1813. Published in Paris by Ladvocat in 1828, in volume 22 of the Œuvres complètes.
French: 1828 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Vers écrits sur un souvenir (1828).
Full title: Vers écrits sur un souvenir donné par madame la marquise de Grollier à M. le baron de Humboldt. Written in Paris in 1818. Published in Paris by Ladvocat in 1828, in volume 22 of the Œuvres complètes.
French: 1828 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Charlottembourg (1828).
Full title: Charlottembourg, ou Le tombeau de la reine de Prusse. Written in Berlin in 1821. Published in Paris by Ladvocat in 1828, in volume 22 of the Œuvres complètes.
French: 1828 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Les Alpes ou l’Italie (1828).
Written in 1822. Published in Paris by Ladvocat in 1828, in volume 22 of the Œuvres complètes.
French: 1828 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Le départ (1828).
Written in Paris in 1827. Published in Paris by Ladvocat in 1828, in volume 22 of the Œuvres complètes.
French: 1828 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
TRAVEL MEMOIRS
Lettre de Rome à M. de Fontanes (1804).
Letter dated 10 January 1804. Published in the magazine Mercure de France of 12 ventôse an XII (3 March 1804). Included in Voyage en Italie in 1827.
French: 1804 (Mercure de France).
English: Letter from Rome addressed to M. de Fontanes (William Joseph Walter, 1815).
Lettre de Trieste à M. Bertin (1806).
Letter about Venice, dated 30 July 1806 from Trieste. Published in the magazine Mercure de France of 16 August 1806.
French: 1806 (Mercure de France).
Lettre de Constantinople (1806).
Letter dated 15 September 1806 from Constantinople. Published in the magazine Mercure de France of 27 December 1806.
French: 1806 (Mercure de France).
Sur le voyage en Espagne de M. de Laborde (1807).
Article about the first two instalments of Alexandre de Laborde’s Voyage pittoresque et historique de l’Espagne (1806–1820), and about Chateaubriand’s own recent travels in Greece, Egypt and Spain. Published in the magazine Mercure de France of 4 July 1807.
French: 1807 (Mercure de France);
1826 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Quelques détails sur les mœurs des Grecs, des Arabes et des Turcs (1807).
Article about Chateaubriand’s recent travels in Greece, Smyrna, Pergamon, Constantinople, Jaffa and Jerusalem. Published in the magazine Mercure de France of 1 August 1807.
French: 1807 (Mercure de France).
Itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem (1811).
Full title: Itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem et de Jérusalem à Paris, en allant par la Grèce, et revenant par l’Égypte, la Barbarie et l’Espagne.
French: 1811, vol. 1,
vol. 2 and
vol. 3 (1st edition);
1826, vol. 1,
vol. 2 and
vol. 3 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Voyage en Amérique (1827).
Published in Paris by Ladvocat in December 1827, in volumes 6 and 7 of the Œuvres complètes.
French: 1827, vol. 1 and
vol. 2 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat);
1857 (Œuvres complètes, Dufour, Mulat et Boulanger).
Voyage en Italie (1827).
Published in Paris by Ladvocat in December 1827, in volume 7 of the Œuvres complètes.
French: 1827 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat);
1857 (Œuvres complètes, Dufour, Mulat et Boulanger).
• Notice sur les fouilles de Pompéi (1827).
French: 1827 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat);
1857 (Œuvres complètes, Dufour, Mulat et Boulanger).
Voyage à Clermont (Auvergne) (1827).
Original title: Cinq jours à Clermont (Auvergne). Published in Paris by Ladvocat in December 1827, in volume 7 of the Œuvres complètes.
French: 1827 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat);
1857 (Œuvres complètes, Dufour, Mulat et Boulanger).
Voyage au Mont-Blanc (1827).
Original title: Le Mont-Blanc. Published in Paris by Ladvocat in December 1827, in volume 7 of the Œuvres complètes.
French: 1827 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat);
1857 (Œuvres complètes, Dufour, Mulat et Boulanger).
GENERAL ESSAYS and TEXTS
I have regrouped in this category the Christian apologetic work Génie du christianisme, texts about art and literature, and maxims. The historical, political and autobiographical works are in the subsequent categories.
De l’Angleterre et des Anglais (1801).
Published in the magazine Mercure de France of 16 messidor an IX (5 July 1801).
French: 1801 (Mercure de France);
1826 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Young (1802).
Article about Edward Young’s Night-thoughts (1742–1745), presented as the first excerpt from an Essai sur la littérature anglaise, unrelated to the 1836 book with the same title. Published in the magazine Mercure de France of 15 germinal an X (5 April 1802).
French: 1802 (Mercure de France);
1826 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Génie du christianisme (1802).
Full title: Génie du christianisme, ou Beautés de la religion chrétienne. Published in Paris by Migneret on 14 April 1802. Second edition published in May 1803, revised and with a supplement, Défense du Génie du christianisme. Two new editions simultaneously in July 1803.
French: 1802, vol. 1,
vol. 2,
vol. 3,
vol. 4 and
vol. 5 (1st edition);
1802 (4 volumes in-8; counterfeit edition, eventually authorised by Chateaubriand);
1803, vol. 1 and
vol. 2 (2nd edition);
1803, vol. 1,
vol. 2,
vol. 3 and
vol. 4 (new [3rd] edition, in-4);
1803 (new [4th] edition, 4 volumes in-8);
1803 (“3rd” [5th] edition, 4 volumes in-8);
1804, vol. 1,
vol. 2,
vol. 3,
vol. 4,
vol. 5,
vol. 6,
vol. 7,
vol. 8 and
vol. 9 (“4th” [6th] edition);
1809, vol. 1,
vol. 2,
vol. 3,
vol. 4 and
vol. 5 (“5th” [7th] edition);
1809, vol. 1,
vol. 2,
vol. 3,
vol. 4,
vol. 5,
vol. 6,
vol. 7,
vol. 8 and
vol. 9 (“6th” [8th] edition);
1826–1827, vol. 1,
vol. 2,
vol. 3,
vol. 4 and
vol. 5 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
English: The beauties of Christianity, vol. 1,
vol. 2 and
vol. 3 (Frederic Shoberl, 1813; see also
1815);
— Genius of Christianity, or The spirit and beauties of the Christian religion (Edmund O’Donnell, 1854);
— The genius of Christianity, or The spirit and beauty of the Christian religion (Charles White, 1856; see also
1884);
— The spirit and beauty of the Christian religion (Emma Stork, 1858; selections).
• Génie du christianisme (abridged edition, 1804).
Published in Paris in April 1804.
French: 1804, vol. 1 and
vol. 2 (Société typographique);
1808, vol. 1 and
vol. 2 (Mame);
1809, vol. 1 and
vol. 2 (Mame);
1818, vol. 1 and
vol. 2 (Beaucé-Rusand).
Shakespeare (1802).
Presented as the second and third excerpts from an Essai sur la littérature anglaise, unrelated to the 1836 book with the same title. Published in the magazine Mercure de France of 5 prairial an X (25 May 1802).
French: 1802, part 1 and
part 2 (Mercure de France);
1826 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Beattie (1802).
Article about James Beattie, presented as the fourth excerpt from an Essai sur la littérature anglaise, unrelated to the 1836 book with the same title. Published in the magazine Mercure de France of 21 messidor an X (10 July 1802).
French: 1802 (Mercure de France);
1826 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Sur les Œuvres complètes de Gilbert (1802).
Article about the poet Nicolas Gilbert (1750–1780). Published in the magazine Mercure de France of 5 thermidor an X (24 July 1802).
French: 1802 (Mercure de France).
Mackenzie (1802).
Article about Alexander Mackenzie’s travels, presented as the fifth and sixth excerpts from an Essai sur la littérature anglaise, unrelated to the 1836 book with the same title. Published in the magazine Mercure de France of 26 thermidor and 24 fructidor an X (14 August and 11 September 1802).
French: 1802, part 1 and
part 2 (Mercure de France);
1826 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Sur la Législation primitive (1802–1803).
Article about Louis de Bonald’s Législation primitive (1802). Published in the magazine Mercure de France of 29 brumaire and 18 nivôse an XI (20 November 1802 and 8 January 1803).
French: 1802, part 1 and
part 2 (Mercure de France);
1826, part 1 and
part 2 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Sur Le printemps d’un proscrit (1803).
Article about Joseph-François Michaud’s poem Le printemps d’un proscrit. Published in the magazine Mercure de France of 23 pluviôse an XI (12 February 1803).
French: 1803 (Mercure de France);
1826 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Sur la mort de M. de La Harpe (1803).
Published in the magazine Mercure de France of 30 pluviôse an XI (19 February 1803).
French: 1803 (Mercure de France);
1827 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Sur l’Histoire de la vie de Jésus-Christ (1803).
Article about François de Ligny’s Histoire de la vie de Jésus-Christ (1774). Published in the magazine Mercure de France of 6 messidor an XI (25 June 1803).
French: 1803 (Mercure de France);
1826 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Sur les Œuvres complètes de Rollin (1805).
Article about the historian Charles Rollin (1661–1741). Published in the magazine Mercure de France of 11 ventôse an XIII (2 March 1805).
French: 1805 (Mercure de France);
1826 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Sur les Essais de morale et de politique (1805).
Article about Louis-Mathieu Molé’s Essais de morale et de politique (1806). Published in the magazine Mercure de France of 30 frimaire an XIV (21 December 1805).
French: 1805 (Mercure de France);
1826 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Sur les Mémoires de Louis XIV (1806).
Article about the publication of Œuvres de Louis XIV (1806). Published in the magazine Mercure de France of 8 March 1806.
French: 1806 (Mercure de France);
1826 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Des lettres et des gens de lettres (1806).
Published in the magazine Mercure de France of 3 May 1806.
French: 1806 (Mercure de France);
1826 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Sur les Annales littéraires de M. Dussault (1819).
Article about Jean Joseph Dussault’s Annales littéraires (1818). Published in Le Conservateur No. 19 in February 1819.
French: 1819 (Le Conservateur);
1826 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Sur la mort de M. de Fontanes (1821).
Published in the Journal des débats politiques et littéraires of 10 April 1821.
French: 1821 (Journal des débats);
1827 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Lettre sur l’art du dessin dans les paysages (1828).
Written in London in 1795. Published in Paris by Ladvocat in 1828, in volume 22 of the Œuvres complètes.
French: 1828 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Pensées, réflexions et maximes (1828).
Published in Paris by Ladvocat in 1828, in volume 22 of the Œuvres complètes.
French: 1828 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Essai sur la littérature anglaise (1836).
French: 1836 (1st edition);
1836.
HISTORICAL and BIOGRAPHICAL WORKS
Essai sur les révolutions (1797).
Full title: Essai historique, politique et moral sur les révolutions anciennes et modernes, considérées dans leurs rapports avec la Révolution française. Written in England in 1793–1796. First volume printed in London in 1796, and published in London by De Boffe on 18 March 1797. The second volume was not completed and never published.
French: 1797 (1st edition);
1815 (Colburn; counterfeit edition, with cuts);
1826, vol. 1 and
vol. 2 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
État politique et moral des nations contemporaines, au moment de la révolution républicaine en Grèce (1802).
Article made of excerpts from chapters 28 to 36 of the first part of the Essai sur les révolutions. Published in the magazine Mercure de France of 14 messidor an X (3 July 1802).
French: 1802 (Mercure de France).
Sur la mort de M. de Saint-Marcellin (1819).
Published in Le Conservateur No. 19 in February 1819.
French: 1819 (Le Conservateur);
1827 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
De la Vendée (1819).
Published in Le Conservateur No. 44 in August 1819.
French: 1819 (Le Conservateur);
1827 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Mémoires sur la vie du duc de Berry (1820).
Full title: Mémoires, lettres et pièces authentiques touchant la vie et la mort de S. A. R. monseigneur Charles-Ferdinand d’Artois, fils de France, duc de Berry.
French: 1820 (1st edition);
1827 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Sur M. le général Nansouty (1821).
Published in volume 20 of Biographie universelle, ancienne et moderne in November 1821.
French: 1821 (Biographie universelle);
1827 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Le roi est mort : vive le roi ! (1824).
Published in Paris by Le Normant père on 17 September 1824.
French: 1824 (1st edition);
1827 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Les quatre Stuart (1828).
Published in Paris by Ladvocat in 1828, in volume 22 of the Œuvres complètes.
French: 1828 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Histoire de France (unfinished, 1831).
Published in Paris by Ladvocat in 1831, in volumes 4, 5, 5bis and 5ter of the Œuvres complètes.
• Préface.
Essay on historiography and its sources.
French: 1831 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
• Études ou discours historiques sur la chute de l’empire romain, la naissance et les progrès du christianisme, et l’invasion des Barbares.
Essays on the Roman Empire from Julius Caesar to the fall of Rome.
French: 1831, part 1,
part 2 and
part 3 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
• Analyse raisonnée de l’histoire de France, depuis le règne de Khlovigh jusqu’à celui de Philippe VI, dit de Valois.
Summary and analysis of the history of the Franks and of France, from about 420 to 1356.
French: 1831 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
• Féodalité, chevalerie, éducation, mœurs générales des douzième, treizième et quatorzième siècles.
Essay on the society in France in the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries.
French: 1831 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
• Histoire de France.
Fragments on the reign of Philip VI (1328–1350) and the beginning of the reign of John II (1350–1356), from what was intended as a fully developed history of France from 1328 to 1789.
French: 1831 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
• Analyse raisonnée de l’histoire de France, depuis la bataille de Poitiers sous le roi Jean, en 1356, jusqu’à la révolution de 1789.
Summary and analysis of the history of France, from 1356 to 1789.
French: 1831 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Congrès de Vérone (1838).
Full title: Congrès de Vérone. Guerre d’Espagne. Négociations : colonies espagnoles.
French: 1838, vol. 1 and
vol. 2 (1st edition).
Vie de Rancé (1844).
French: 1844 (1st edition);
1844 (2nd edition, revised).
POLITICAL WORKS
De Buonaparte et des Bourbons (1814).
Full title: De Buonaparte, des Bourbons et de la nécessité de se rallier à nos princes légitimes, pour le bonheur de la France et celui de l’Europe. Published in Paris by Mame on 5 April 1814.
French: 1814 (1st edition);
1814 (3rd edition);
1814 (Lyon);
1814 (Zurich);
1814 (Lausanne, titled De Buonaparte, des Bourbons et des Alliés,
to which Philippe Lesbroussart published a Réponse in 1814);
1828 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat);
1872 (Felix Girard).
English: On Buonaparte and the Bourbons, and the necessity of rallying around our legitimate princes, for the safety of France and of Europe (anonymous, 1814, in The Pamphleteer);
— Of Buonaparte, and the Bourbons, and of the necessity of rallying round our legitimate princes for the happiness of France and that of Europe (anonymous, 1814; revised in
1814).
• À M. le rédacteur du Journal de Paris (1814).
Letter published in the newspaper Journal de Paris of 10 April 1814.
French: 10 April 1814 (Journal de Paris).
English: To the editor of the Journal de Paris (anonymous, 1814, in The Pamphleteer);
— To the editor of the Journal de Paris (anonymous, 1814).
Réflexions politiques (1814).
Full title: Réflexions politiques sur quelques écrits du jour et sur les intérêts de tous les Français. Published in Paris by Le Normant on 27 November 1814.
French: 1814 (1st edition);
1828 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Le 21 janvier (1815).
Published in Paris by Le Normant in January 1815. Also published in the Journal des débats politiques et littéraires of 19 January 1815.
French: 1815 (1st edition);
1815 (Journal des débats);
1828 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
De la monarchie selon la Charte (1816).
Published in Paris by Le Normant in 1816.
French: 1816 (Le Normant, with errata);
1816 (Le Normant, corrected);
1816 (new edition, Germany);
1816 (Les Amis du Roi);
1816 (London);
1816 (Brussels);
1827 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
English: The monarchy according to the Charter (anonymous, 1816).
Du système politique suivi par le ministère (1818).
French: 1827 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Remarques sur les affaires du moment (1818).
French: 1827 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Discours sur une proposition de M. le comte de Castellane (1819).
Published in Le Conservateur No. 26 in March 1819.
French: 1819 (Le Conservateur);
1826 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Première lettre à un pair de France (1824).
8 November 1824.
French: 1827 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
Seconde lettre à un pair de France (1824).
2 December 1824.
French: 1827 (Œuvres complètes, Ladvocat).
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Désiré Nisard (preface):
Lectures des Mémoires de M. de Chateaubriand (1834).
Full title: Lectures des Mémoires de M. de Chateaubriand, ou Recueil d’articles publiés sur ces Mémoires, avec des fragments originaux. Contains excerpts from Chateaubriand’s Mémoires. Published in Paris by Lefèvre in 1834.
French: 1834.
Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve:
Chateaubriand (Mémoires) (1836).
Chapter from Sainte-Beuve’s Critiques et portraits littéraires. Contains excerpts from Chateaubriand’s Mémoires. Published in Paris by Eugène Renduel in 1836.
French: 1836;
1841.
Mémoires d’outre tombe (1848–1850).
Written from 1809 to 1841 for posthumous publication. Revised in 1845 and 1846. Serialised in the newspaper La Presse from 21 October 1848 to 5 July 1850. Published in Paris in 12 volumes from January 1849 to October 1850.
French: 21 October 1848 and
5 July 1850 (La Presse, first and last instalments).
REFERENCES
Henry Saillard:
“L’édition originale de René”
in Bulletin du bibliophile et du bibliothécaire (1929).
French: 1929.
Created on 28 January 2025. Updated on 8 March 2025.
