Carteret, I, 161; Talvart 2-B Vicaire, II, 279-280. Cohen, 229, Chateaubriand, Le Voyageur et l’homme politique, 1969, Biblioth\u00e8que nationale, n\u00b068; Escoffier, le Mouvement romantique, 155. <\/i><\/p>\n
First collective edition of these two novels, which mark the beginning of the Romantic era.<\/span><\/p>\n It is decorated with 6 figures engraved by Saint-Aubin and Choffard after drawings by Garnier.<\/p>\n After being published separately five times in 1801, Atala<\/i> took its rightful place in the G\u00e9nie du Christianisme<\/i> alongside Ren\u00e9 (1802). Successive editions will give rise to numerous revisions by the author until the present edition, which gives the definitive text : \u00abJ’ai pass\u00e9 quatre ans \u00e0 revoir cet \u00e9pisode, mais aussi il est tel qu’il doit rester. C’est la seule Atala que je reconno\u00eetrai \u00e0 l’avenir \u00bb (Pr\u00e9face). The preface in which Chateaubriand explains his work and his reaction to the criticism of these two novels is in first edition.<\/p>\n In 1791, Ch\u00e2teaubriand travelled to America, which inspired two literary works. The first was Atala<\/i>, followed by Voyage en Am\u00e9rique<\/i>, published in 1828, which retraces his journey. Ch\u00e2teaubriand was fascinated by the American landscape, with its luxuriant, wild and transcendent nature. As an amateur botanist, he did not forget to incorporate this nature into Atala, which combines his impressions of his journey with a tragic love story between Atala and Chactas.<\/p>\n A presentation copy to an amateur botanist.<\/p>\n Chateaubriand’s interest in botany is well known. It is apparent not only in his works but also in his daily life when he tended the garden at his property in the Vall\u00e9e-aux-Loups.<\/p>\n Although little is known about Madame Chauss\u00e9e, it is certain that she was an amateur botanist in Le Havre. She was behind the creation of a unique rose in the 1820s. For a time, she was dispossessed of her creation in favour of Monsieur Caron, caretaker of the garden at Rouen town hall (Singer, Max, Dictionnaire des roses, 1885, p.335).<\/p>\n Although there are no historical documents linking Chateaubriand to Madame Chaus\u00e9e, we cannot ignore the fact that their lives coincided. Botany was not the only thing that linked them. They also frequented the same places. It was in Le Havre that the author disembarked after his stay in America, and he devoted several passages to the town in his M\u00e9moires d’Outre-tombe<\/i> (Livre VII).<\/p>\n Provenance: From the very fine collection of Doctor Armand Ripault (bookplate with the motto “d’esp\u00e9rer servira”), his auction catalogue 24-26 January 1924 (first part, no. 239); Andr\u00e9 Cade (bookplate): Professor of general pathology and therapeutics at the Faculty of Medicine in Lyon. – Correspondent at the Acad\u00e9mie de m\u00e9decine and member of the Acad\u00e9mie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Lyon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" . 12mo (166 x 93 mm), 2 unn.l, 46 pp.,1 l. (blank), 331 pp. contemporary straight-grained red morocco, flat spine gilt, gilt garland framing the covers with gilt lettering on the first “SOUVENIRS D’AMITI\u00c9” and on the second “Mme CHAUSSEE”, inner gilt roll, gilt edges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":73897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[544],"product_tag":[598,1267],"class_list":{"0":"post-73906","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-literature","7":"product_tag-19th-century-literature","8":"product_tag-binding","9":"pa_auteur-chateaubriand-francois-rene-2","10":"pa_type-de-livre-printed-book","12":"first","13":"outofstock","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple"},"acf":{"artist":" Fran\u00e7ois-Ren\u00e9 CHATEAUBRIAND","chapeau":"Presentation copy","adresse_bibliographique":"Paris, Le Normant, 1805","book_type":"Printed book","provenance":"","afficher_prix":""},"yoast_head":"\n