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...1790s. Roberts persuaded his wife to translate it and polished the translation himself. First of Moreau de St. Méry's many works to be put into English, it is not to be compared for literary quality to the contemporary notes of another French traveler, Chateaubriand. But it introduces to U.S. readers a methodical diarist who jotted down thousands of free anthropological notes, the like of which is not to be found elsewhere. "So far as I am aware," says Roberts, "no American or foreign author has ever written with such startling frankness about . . . American women during...
...second-floor bedroom of Washington's Blair House, Léon Blum put on his blue & white striped pajamas, settled down to read François René de Chateaubriand's Atala, American Indian romance told of the days when "France possessed . . . a vast empire stretching from Labrador to Florida, from the shores of the Atlantic to the remotest lakes of upper Canada." Now France's imperial glory was gone, and her aging but active special emissary, only ten months out of a Nazi prison, had come to the shores of the former colony to plead...
Columbia University last week gave a Maria Moors Cabot Gold Medal for hemisphere service to Brazil's most potent publisher, small, dynamic, tack-sharp Dr. Francisco de Assis Chateaubriand...
Hard work, slick financing, fast talk, and a driving energy that permitted only parlor-car relaxation on his cross-country travels raised Chateaubriand from a law professorship at Recife to the most comprehensive press lordship south of San Simeon. He owns 28 newspapers, 16 radio stations, five magazines and a press service. The most spectacular of his promotions, a campaign for Brazil's amateur Aero Clubs, paid off when Aero Clubs' Sunday fliers started pouring into the war-activated Brazilian Air Force...
...fiery temper has occasionally impelled Chateaubriand to language that no family journalist should use. Just after one of his papers had guttersniped a dashing engineer named Clito Bockel, Chateaubriand found himself toasting an air force officer at an Aero Club plane christening. The officer responded, "I am Clito Bockel's brother," and knocked the publisher down. Livid with passion, Chateaubriand drew his pistol and, with indifferent aim grazed Bockel's cheek, shot his chief editorial writer...