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castle of Combourg, some kind of massive typical medivial castle
was the home of his youth and perhaps the fisrt birth of his romantic
feelings, filled with melancholy and admiration towards beauty and
mystery of Nature..
Closer
you could read " mon
sang a teingt la banniere de France» (my blood darkened the banner
of France)", wich
is a reminder to his Ancestors at one of the Crusades in the 11th
century.
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Chateaubriand
wrote some stories about his youth in that cold castle and the forests
in the neighborhoud: « C'est dans les
bois de Combourg que je suis devenu ce que je suis, que j'ai commencé
à sentir la première atteinte de cet ennui que j'ai
traîné toute ma vie, de cette tristesse qui a fait
mon tourment et ma félicité. » François-René
Chateaubriand - Mémoires d'outre tombe.
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View
of the town and castle of Combourg.
The
fortress was built around 1037 and was bought by his father on 3rd
may 1761.
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Back
of the castle, the stairs are not the original ones.
They were re-built in the 19th.
Chateaubriand was born on 4th september 1768 in St-Malo (France).
He came to this castle for the first time on spring 1777, his mother
hated the fortress, "dark
and gloomy like a prison"
and later he wrote in his memories: "Partout
silence, obscurité et visage de pierre, voilà le chateau de Combourg"
("Everywhere silence, darkness et stone faces, here is the castle
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Here
is another view, with perhaps the small and cold room of Chateaubriand's
youth (top windows on the wall).
The castle can be visited, it is still owned by the family of Chateaubriand's
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picture to enlarge
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