Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand 
Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb 

The most enjoyable, glamorous and gripping of all 19th-century autobiographies – a tumultuous account of France hit by wave after wave of revolutions Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb is the greatest and most influential of all French autobiographies – an extraordinary, highly entertaining account of a uniquely adventurous and frenzied life. Chateaubriand gives a superb narrative of the major events of his life – which spanned the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Era and the uneasy period that led up to the Revolution of 1830.