The second part of an infamous memoir about life in the time of Napoleon by a rebellious literary celebrity. In 1800, Fran?ois-Ren? de Chateaubriand sailed from the cliffs of Dover to the headlands of Calais. He was thirty-one and had been living as a political refugee in England for most of a decade, at times in such extreme poverty that he subsisted on nothing but hot water and two-penny rolls. Over the next fifteen years, his life...