![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His first major publications, the Essai sur les révolutions (1796) and the Génie du christianisme (1802), show his political commitment then in favor of the counter-revolution and in defense of the Ancien Régime society. The numerous political and diplomatic responsibilities that marked his career as well as his taste for travel, in America and then in the Mediterranean basin, structured a life marked by exile and nostalgia for stability. Several times ambassador to various sovereigns, he was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1822 to 1824 under the Restoration and was, under the reign of Charles X, among the ultraroyalists. Coming from the Breton nobility, the most famous member of his family from Saint-Malo, Chateaubriand was politically part of the royalist movement. ![]()
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