title: Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1768-1800
author:  Franois-Ren de Chateaubriand 
description: "What distinguishes [<i>Memoirs from Beyond the Grave</i>]...is less its historical overview of the turbulence that precededNapoleons rise to power than Chateaubriands examination of his own character and feelings amid multiple setbacks. Indeed, it is the lyricism and intimacy of his language, convincingly translated here byAlex Andriesse, that made Chateaubriand a precursor of French Romanticism." Alan Riding,<i>The New York Times Book Review<br /></i><br />Alex Andriesse's fine unabridged translationwhich deftly wrangles Chateaubriands personal canon of Greek and Latin classics, Breton proverbs, Jewish scripture, Catholic hymns andmedievallaidis the first into English in more than a century. Whatdoes Chateaubriand have to offer the contemporary reader? Beyond the sumptuous language and aphoristic compression, it is his ability to engage with, and even surmount, contradiction that proves most resonant. His elastic proseleaps easily between burnished romanticism and more classical formsIt makes for immensely satisfying reading. Dustin Illingworth,<i>TLS</i> <br /><br />"Alex Andriesse has done a wonderful job suggesting the range of tone and feeling Chateaubriand offers, he shifts from the ecstatic to the dry, from the descriptive to the cryptic...The echoes of Chateaubriand in so much existentialist literature of the 20th century suggest that for all his difficulty finding congenial company among his contemporaries, in a longer perspective he becomes a figure we can all be intimate with." Tim Parks, <i>London Review of Books</i><br /><br />"This memoir, ably translated by Andriesse with an introduction from historian Anka Muhlstein, reveals to English-speaking readers the famously aphoristic and flamboyant style that other French writers, including Baudelaire and Proust, admired and sought to emulate." <i>Publishers Weekly</i><br /><br />The best autobiography ever written. . . . The old viscount could write one hell of a sentence. Its an incredible book. Paul Auster, <i>The Book of Illusions</i><br /><br /> Chateaubriands <i>Memoirs</i>. . . are his Arc de Triomphe, and may yet prove more lasting than their equivalent in stone. Adam Kirsch<br /><br />To read Chateaubriand is to witness the subjective and yet comprehensive unfolding of a societys change: of customs, prospects, ethics, conventions. He stands (as in the famous portrait by Girodet) on the farther shore. Alberto Manguel <br /><br />"The<i>Memoirs from Beyond the Grave</i>[...]encapsulate and bring to perfect mastery all the linguistic registers that their author had by turns attempted: epic, tragic, elegiac, lyric, oratorical, narrative, descriptive  like an evening rainbow over a Venetian lagoon." Marc Fumaroli <br /> <br /> A Romantic classic. BBC News, Paris
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  # An Account Of The Battle Of Chateauguay
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### William D. Lighthall
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  This page formatted 2004 Munsey's.
  
  
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  PREFACE.
  
  
  THE BATTLE OF CHATEAUGUAY.
  
  
  APPENDIX.
  
  
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      An Account Of The Battle Of Chateauguay
  
  
  Being A Lecture Delivered At Ormstown, March 8th, 1889
  
  
  
  
      
  
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  Chateauguay Literary and Historical Society
  
  
  
  
  
  AN ACCOUNT
  
  
  OF
  
  
  THE BATTLE OF CHATEAUGUAY
  
  
  BEING
  
  
  A LECTURE DELIVERED AT ORMSTOWN,
  
  
  MARCH 8TH, 1889
  
  
  BY
  
  
  W.D. LIGHTHALL, M.A.,
  
  
  _Honorary Member of the Chateauguay Literary and Historical
  
  
  Society,
  
  
    
  Secretary of the Antiquarian Society of Montreal, Life
  
  
  Corresponding
  
  
    
  Member of the Scottish Society of Literature and Art, Author of
  
  
  “The
  
  
    
  Young Seigneur,” “Songs of the Great Dominion,” etc._
  
  
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