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...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...
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