Les Natchez
Two volumes. Paris: Chez Lefevre, Libraire, Chez Ladvocat, Libraire, 1829.
Later printing. Leather bound. Octavos. Two volumes. Volume I: [3], 344 pages. Volume II: [3], 384 pages. A repaired set. Contemporary green morrocan leather binding. Marbeled end papers and text edges. Boards reattached. Tissue inner hinge repairs both volumes. Title labels missing from Volume I. Rear board of volume 1 has a small patched area. One of volume II title labels is present on the upper spine. The rest of the spine for volume 2 is repaired with green mulberry paper. Board edges stabilized. Light to moderate scattered foxing to the contents. From wikipedia: Les Natchez is a romance written by François-René de Chateaubriand, during his exile in England, and printed in 1825-26.[1] Its subject is the Natchez people,[2] and it contains the author's impressions of America and views of life.[1] An excerpt from this work was published previously, in 1802, as the novella René. Fair. Item #22140
From the New World Encyclopedia:
François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand (September 4, 1768 – July 4, 1848) was a French writer, politician and diplomat. He is considered the founder of Romanticism in French literature. Romanticism was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in late eighteenth-century Western Europe. In art and literature, it stressed strong emotion as a source of aesthetic experience, placing a new emphasis on such emotions as trepidation, horror, and the awe experienced in confronting the sublimity of nature. It elevated individual experience and honored heroic men, whatever their station in life. In part Romanticism developed as a revolt against aristocratic social and political norms of the Enlightenment period and a reaction against the rationalization of nature. The name "romantic" itself comes from the term "romance," which is a prose or poetic heroic narrative originating in the medieval age.
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