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Les Natchez

François-René de Chateaubriand

Les Natchez is a romance written by François-René de Chateaubriand, during his exile in England, and printed in 1825-26. Its subject is the Natchez people, and it contains the Chateaubriand's impressions of America and views of life.

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“Achilles exists only through Homer. Take away the art of writing from this world, and you will probably take away its glory.”

François-René de Chateaubriand book Les Natchez

Les Natchez (1826).

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