to keep the man-eating cow population down

here's where I found them www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho...

either way, I think you can find all the volumes on gutenberg press online for free

Her memoirs are priceless. From her reflections on experiencing the horror of the peninsula war as the privileged child of Murat's aide-de-camp to her desperate orphanage and convent life to her emergence as a literary celeb alongside Balzac... her comments on Chopin are tenderly revealing.

yeah, after trump won in November, I went on a deep chateaubriand binge, and then George sand ... gotta say, the two have extraordinarily complimentary memoirs. Sand loved him, but wrote, "Chateaubriand me touchait comme littérateur, et ne me pénétrait pas comme chrétien."

he was sincere and sensitive. I think in some ways those traits can be problematic (sincerity can mean myopic ardor and sensitivity can be mere aristocratic elitism). he spent a lot of time walking around by himself, being in solitude, and living the tragedy of the period in all its manifestations.

iirc, his brother was a revolutionary, but he witnessed the whole head-on-pike thing, and it the experience horrified him into abandoning the project and fleeing to the US. he sort of had a romantic's heart and a weird mix of pessimism and Christian hope. not caping for him, just trying to remember.

but he also thought that the restoration was tawdry and awfully corrupt, and that the Orleanist monarchy that followed it was a slapdash fool's adventure... he was almost embarrassed for Louis-philippe, because he kind of believed the French gov by that point was hopeless. he was nuanced and sad.