Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, often referred to as Malesherbes or Lamoignon-Malesherbes, was a French statesman and minister in the Ancien Régime, and later counsel for the defense o
(Musée de la Révolution française)
Château of Malesherbes
Anne-Marie, Countess of Sénozan
François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand was a French writer, politician, diplomat and historian who influenced French literature of the 19th century. Descended from an old aristocratic family from Bri
Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes
…sister Anne-Nicole, Countess of Sénozan, 76, was executed on the same day as Madame Elisabeth, the king's sister. Malesherbes was the grandfather of François-René de Chateaubriand's sister in law, Aline de Chateaubriand. Although he remained a committed royalist until his death, Malesherbes was hardly untouched by the radical…
Portrait of Chateaubriand by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson, 1809
The Château de Combourg, where Chateaubriand spent his childhood
Young Chateaubriand, by Anne-Louis Girodet (c. 1790)
Chateaubriand in the army of Condé