Cette modeste tombe, qui se tient face à la mer sur la presqu’île du Grand Bé à Saint-Malo , est celle de l’un des plus grands écrivains de langue française de tous les temps.

François René de Chateaubriand né en 1768 à Saint Malo et mort en 1848 à Paris, fut ministre d’état, ambassadeur de France au Royaume Uni, au Vatican et en Suède, il fut le témoin privilégié de tous les grands événements de l’Histoire de France et de l’Europe entre 1789 et 1830 : la Révolution, la Terreur, l’aventure napoléonienne, la Restauration (Louis XVIII, Charles X) la révolution de 1830.
Son grand ouvrage : "Mémoires d’Outre-Tombe" contient le récit passionnant de ces événements majeurs et du rôle qu’il y joua lui-même, parfois.



This modest tomb, which stands facing the sea on the peninsula of Grand Bé in Saint-Malo , is that of one of the greatest French-language writers of all time.

François René de Chateaubriand born in 1768 in Saint-Malo and died in 1848 in Paris, was a minister of state, ambassador of France to the United Kingdom, to the Vatican and to Sweden, he was a privileged witness of all the great events of the history of France and Europe between 1789 and 1830: the French Revolution, the Terror, the Napoleonic adventure, the Restoration (Louis XVIII, Charles X) the Revolution of 1830.
His great book: "Mémoires d’Outre-Tombe" (" Memoirs from Beyond the Grave") contains a fascinating account of these major events and the role he himself sometimes played in them.

Special note for my North American friends:
In 1791, fleeing from France where he was considered a counter-revolutionary and risking the guillotine as such, he left Saint-Malo and went to Newfoundland. From there he travelled through Canada and the United States and lived great adventures related in «Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe».

So much better viewed in original size.