Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1800-1815

<b>The second part of an infamous memoir about life in the time of Napoleon by a rebellious literary celebrity.</b> <br><br>In 1800 Fran&#231;ois-Ren&#233; de Chateaubriand sailed from the cliffs of Dover to the headlands of Calais. He was thirty-one and had been living as a political refugee in England for most of a decade at times in such extreme poverty that he subsisted on nothing but hot water and two-penny rolls. Over the next fifteen years his life was utterly changed. He published <i>Atala</i> <i>Ren&#233;</i> and <i>The Genius of Christianity</i> to acclaim and epoch-making scandal. He strolled the streets of Jerusalem and mapped the ruins of Carthage. He served Napoleon in Rome then resigned in protest after the Duc d&#146;Enghien&#146;s execution putting his own life at tremendous risk.<br><br><i>Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1800&#150;1815</i>&#151;the second volume in Alex Andriesse&#146;s new and complete translation of this epic French classic&#151;is a chronicle of triumphs and sorrows narrating not only the author&#146;s life during a tumultuous period in European history but the &#147;parallel life&#148; of Napoleon. In these pages Chateaubriand continues to paint his distinctive self-portrait in which the whole history of France swirls around the sitter like a mist of dreams.