Author
François-René de Chateaubriand is documented in Fuller’s published essays and manuscripts (1845–1849). No work is named in the surviving passages, most often in On Michelangelo and Raphael, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.
Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →
“whether the impression of personality relates to the religious enthusiasms of Chateaubriand and La Martine or the lost pantaloons and cups of tea of our countryman, Stephens.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“whether the impression of personality relates to the religious enthusiasms of Chateaubriand and La Martine or the lost pantaloons and cups of tea of our countryman, Stephens.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Books of Travel." New-York Daily Tribune, 18 December 1845. · 18 December 1845
“has given birth in our own time to the poet and to the orator of Catholicism, to Chateaubriand and to La Mannais”
Fuller, Margaret. "Michelet’s History of France." New-York Daily Tribune, 20 May 1845. · 20 May 1845
“I looked at the monument Chateaubriand erected when here, to a poor girl who died last of her family”
Fuller, Margaret. "Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . XXVI." New-York Daily Tribune, 26 January 1849. · 26 January 1849
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
“Chateaubriand after Plutarch, through the eye the lesson comes forcibly.”
Fuller, Margaret. "On Michelangelo and Raphael." Houghton Library, Harvard University.