Chateaubriand

Franco is, Auguste Vicomte DE, a French author and politician, was born in 1768. His celebrated work is Lo Oenio du Christian ism a. Iiis early life was chequered, but he eventually became a diplomatist under Napoleon, and at the restoration of Louis XVIII. lie was appointed amba ador to Berlin. On the revolution of 1830 he refused to pay allegiance to Louis Philippe, thereby forfeiting a large pension lie died iu 1848.