In 1830 he abandoned political affairs and spent his final years with Mme Récamier composing his Memoires d'outre-tombe (1849–50). Later he supported the Bourbons and became a peer (1815), ambassador to London (1822), and minister of foreign affairs (1823–24). In 1803, Napoleon appointed Chateaubriand secretary of the legation to Rome and then minister to Valaise, but in 1804, upon the execution of the duc d' Enghien, he resigned and became a bitter anti-Bonapartist. 1812, 1859), which celebrated the victory of Christianity over paganism, and Les Aventures du dernier Abencérage (1826), a narrative of romance set in Spain. His other works include The Martyrs (1809, tr. Two tragic love stories included in this volume, "Atala" (1801) and "René" (1802), exemplify the melancholy, exotic description of nature and the evocative language that became a trademark of romantic fiction. 1856) made Chateaubriand the most important author of his time in France. There he published his first book, Essai historique, politique, et moral sur les révolutions (1797). He returned to France but became an émigré and lived in England until 1800.
In 1791 he visited the United States, supposedly to search for the Northwest Passage, although he apparently did not go beyond Niagara Falls. Of noble birth, he grew up in his family's isolated castle of Combourg. Chateaubriand was a founder of romanticism in French literature. François René Chateaubriand, vicomte de (fräNswä´ rənā´ vēkôNt´ də shätōbrēäN´), 1768–1848, French writer.
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