The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 1 (of 6): Mémoires d'outre-tombe, volume 1

· 1848

Birth of my brothers and sisters--My own birth--Plancoët--I am vowed--Combourg--My father's scheme of education for me--Villeneuve--Lucile--Mesdemoiselles Couppart--I am a bad pupil--The life led by my maternal grandmother and her sister at Plancoët--My uncle, the Comte de Bedée, at Monchoix--I am relieved from my nurse's vow--Holidays--Saint-Malo--Gesril--Hervine Magon--Fight with two ship's lads A note from M. Pasquier--Dieppe--Change in my education--Spring in Brittany--An historic forest--Pelagian fields--The moon setting over the sea--Departure for Combourg--Description of the castle--Dol College--Mathematics and languages--An instance of memory--Holidays at Combourg--Life at a country…

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