Word: chateaubriand
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...CHATEAUBRIAND by George D. Painter...
Byron may have inspired the image of the archromantic. But it was François-René de Chateaubriand-writer, politician and Olympian lover-who lived it. Born in 1768 to a minor Breton nobleman, he came of age with the French Revolution. By the time he was 24, the Chevalier Chateaubriand had already journeyed to America in search of noble savages and exotic flora...
Across the ocean, Chateaubriand was less successful. Few Americans had heard of him in his own century; today the English-speaking world tends to associate the name with an expensive steak dish (created by a chef during Chateaubriand's brief sojourn as ambassador to England). British Biographer George Painter attempts to resurrect the legend by resuscitating the man. Author of a highly acclaimed and exhaustively researched biography of Proust, Painter has produced the first part of a projected three-volume study. Like its predecessor, it promises to be a model of organization and insight...
...Longed-For Tempests, which chronicles Chateaubriand's first 25 years, begins with his birth during a violent storm at St.-Malo, a granite fortress of a town on the coast of Brittany. At Combourg, the family's gloomy, turreted castle, Chateaubriand grew into moody adolescence, given to sentimental verse and melancholy posturing. But Paris beckoned. There he witnessed, along with "fashionable spectators and lovely ladies who drove up in their carriages," the storming of the Bastille on July...
...home. At the Rail Bar, Bartender Casimer Kania ordered ten patrons to leave as each new group of ten entered; he feared the floor would cave in under the crowd's weight. At Salvatore's Italian Gardens Restaurant in Lancaster, free sandwiches for everyone replaced costly Chateaubriand. Fire departments set up soup and spaghetti lines. The Salvation Army served meals to 25,000 people, clothed 4,000, gave medical supplies to 3,000. Citizens offered their snowmobiles for emergency rescue missions. Residents without electricity or gas found others willing to take them into their homes...