The cynical attitude toward recruited infantry in the face of ever more powerful field artillery is the source of the term cannon fodder, first used by François-René de Chateaubriand, in 1814 ; however, the concept of regarding soldiers as nothing more than " food for powder " was mentioned by William Shakespeare as early as 1598, in Henry IV, Part 1.

Chateaubriand used his new-found wealth in 1806 to visit Greece, Asia Minor, Palestine, Egypt and Spain.

Backed by the power of his press conglomerate, Chateaubriand used to pressure Brazilian political and economical elite to help him in his " public campaigns ".

The bold methods used by Chateaubriand to finance the formation of the collection produced many critics.

In later life, Chateaubriand would be notoriously unfaithful to her, having a series of love affairs, but the couple would never divorce.

A couple of months before World War I, Marthe visited Spain, following the footsteps of Chateaubriand, her favorite French writer.

Henry II severely persecuted Protestants under the Edict of Chateaubriand and when the French authorities complained about the missionary activities, Geneva was able to disclaim responsibility.

Gautier experienced a prominent time in his life when the original romantics such as Hugo, François-René de Chateaubriand, Alphonse de Lamartine, Alfred de Vigny and Alfred de Musset were no longer actively participating in the literary world.

On 5 August 1829, Charles dismissed Martignac and appointed Jules de Polignac, who, however, lost his majority in parliament at the end of August, when the Chateaubriand faction defected.

Descended from an old Breton aristocratic family, Chateaubriand was a royalist by political disposition and in an age when a significant part of the intelligentsia was turning against the Church, authored the Génie du christianisme in defence of the Catholic faith.

Here Chateaubriand fell in love with a young English woman, Charlotte Ives, but the romance ended when he was forced to reveal he was already married.

Chateaubriand died in Paris during the Revolution of 1848 and was buried, as he requested, on an island ( called Grand Be ) near Saint-Malo, only accessible when the tide is out.

A common misconception is that the tenderloin is also called a Chateaubriand steak, when in fact, the Chateaubriand is a recipe for a particular tenderloin steak which originates from France.

Like many modernist authors, Sartre, when young, loved popular novels in preference to the classics and claimed in his autobiography that it was from them, rather than from the balanced phrases of Chateaubriand that he had his " first encounters with beauty.

In the following year, Brazilian media businessman, mogul and journalist Assis Chateaubriand took the rights to the Miss Brasil pageant, when the winners qualified to the Miss Universe, Miss World ( participation began at 1958 ) and Miss International pageants ( participation begin in 1960, when the pageant was created ).

Atwater ’ s adaptation of the Clifford thesis was promulgated in Europe when Vicomte François René de Chateaubriand appended a translation of Atwater ’ s report to his Voyage en Amérique et en Italie ( 1828 ).

Back with the full Bourbon Restoration, Bertin directed the Moniteur until 1823, when the Journal des Débats became the recognized organ of the liberal-constitutional opposition after he had come to criticize absolutism ( a road similar to the one taken by François-René de Chateaubriand ).

" We are convinced that the great writers have told their own story in their works ", wrote Chateaubriand in Génie du christianisme, " one only truly describes one's own heart by attributing it to another, and the greater part of genius is composed of memories.

In France, Voltaire wrote L ' Ingénu, the tale of a Huron who visits France and also Chateaubriand, a French noble exiled in America, wrote Atala and René.

The French diplomat and philhellene François-René de Chateaubriand after his visit in Sounion in 1806, wrote his impressions: « Around me there were graves, silence, disaster, death and some Greek sailors sleeping without cares on the ruins of Greece.

" I learned by heart the elegies of the Chevalier de Parny, and I still know them ," wrote Chateaubriand in 1813.

After the French Revolution, the Houdetots and Saint-Lambert moved to Sannois, where they created a society of men of letters from the pre-Revolutionary Enlightenment, like La Harpe, abbé Morellet, and Suard-and some rising stars like Chateaubriand, who wrote in his Mémoires d ' Outre-Tombe ( Memoirs from beyond the grave ) that Saint-Lambert and Sophie d ' Houdetot " both represented the opinions and the freedoms of a by-gone age, carefully stuffed and preserved: it was the eighteenth century expired and married in its manner.

In 1791, the French writer François-René de Chateaubriand visited the island while journeying to North America, staying at the Franciscan Convent and who later wrote of the island.

During this period Camilo wrote a number of religious works and translated the work of François-René de Chateaubriand.

Romanticism in France defied political affiliation: one finds both " liberal " ( like Stendhal ), " conservative " ( like Chateaubriand ) and socialist ( George Sand ) strains.

Chateaubriand began as a journalist at the age of 15, working for the newspaper Gazeta do Norte.

From a meager and troublesome youth in the northeast of Brazil – he only learned how to read at the age of 10 – Chateaubriand followed the trail of a self-made man into a position of quasi monopoly in Brazilian press.

The first established use of the term in a political context was by François-René de Chateaubriand in 1819, following the French Revolution.

Charles and his advisers believed a new government could be formed with the support of the Villèle, Chateaubriand, and Decazes monarchist factions, but chose a chief minister, Polignac, in November 1829 who was repellant to the liberals and, worse, Chateaubriand.

Noting that the work developed on a classical theme of miscegenation, which recalled the prose of François-René de Chateaubriand and Pierre Loti, the critic proposed that its main merit was in introducing the exotic novel to local literature.

Herein arose the clerical philosophers — Joseph de Maistre, Louis de Bonald, François-René de Chateaubriand — whose answer was restoring the House of Bourbon and reinstalling the Roman Catholic Church as the established church.

These sonnets were more personal and less imitative than the Olive sequence, and struck a note which was revived in later French literature by Volney and Chateaubriand.

François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand () ( 4 September 1768 – 4 July 1848 ) was a French writer, politician, diplomat and historian.

His father, René de Chateaubriand ( 1718 – 86 ), was a former sea captain turned ship owner and slave trader.

Chateaubriand's father was a morose, uncommunicative man and the young Chateaubriand grew up in an atmosphere of gloomy solitude, only broken by long walks in the Breton countryside and an intense friendship with his sister Lucile.

Chateaubriand was educated in Dol, Rennes and Dinan.

When the French Revolution broke out, Chateaubriand was initially sympathetic, but as events in Paris became more violent he decided to journey to North America in 1791.

Chateaubriand spent most of his exile in extreme poverty in London, scraping a living offering French lessons and doing translation work, but a stay in Suffolk was more idyllic.

But the two men soon quarrelled and Chateaubriand was nominated as minister to Valais ( in Switzerland ).

Chateaubriand was, after his resignation, completely dependent on his literary efforts.

Although the move was considered a success, Chateaubriand was soon relieved of his office by Prime Minister Jean-Baptiste de Villèle, the leader of the ultra-royalist group, on 5 June 1824.

Chateaubriand, along with other Catholic traditionalists such as Ballanche or, on the other side of the political board, the socialist and republican Pierre Leroux, was then one of the few to attempt to conciliate the three terms of Liberté, égalité and fraternité, beyond the antagonism between liberals and socialists concerning the interpretation to give to the seemingly contradictory terms.

Chateaubriand was the first to define the vague des passions (" intimations of passion ") which would become a commonplace of Romanticism: " One inhabits, with a full heart, an empty world " ( Génie du Christianisme ).