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Cont'd:

"Furious to find inequalities of rank persisting in this world of sorrow and tears, condemned to be no more than a villain in the feudality of the executioners, he tried to kill himself to escape the magnificos of crime. He failed. Death laughs at those who summon it and confuse it with nothingness." (tr. Alex Andriesse

Chateaubriand was a marksman with a pen.

Cont'd:

"...but wit and talent of the kind that does not reach posterity. When he saw that would come to nothing under the Revolution, he turned against himself those same hands that he had once raised against society. The red cap appeared to his pride as no more than another sort of crown and sans-culottism as another sort of nobility, of which the Marats and the Robespierres were high and puissant lords."

(Pt. 2)

A delectable take down of Chamfort by Chateaubriand:

"Infected by the same malady that made the Jacobins, he could not forgive mankind for the accident of his of his birth. He betrayed the confidence of the houses into which he was admitted. He mistook his own cynical language for an accurate description of the manners of the court. No one can deny that he had wit and talent..."

(Pt. 1)

man this is kinda depressing