Chateaubriandian

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1. Of or relating to François-René de Chateaubriand.

   [...] his Chateaubriandian love of the dead and of the graveyard atmosphere [...]

   1939, An Approach to a Price Theory for a Changing Economy, page 79

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   In good Chateaubriandian manner, Stendhal wrote his “promenades dans Rome” in his Paris apartment, across the Rue Richelieu from the Bibliothèque Nationale, from which his cousin would bring him other writers’ memoirs of Rome for...inspiration.

   1984, John Joseph, “I-Tinerary: The Romantic Travel Journal after Chateaubriand”, in South Central Review, volume 1, number 1/2, →DOI, page 47

   [...] a Chateaubriandian combat between 'la passion et le remords' [passion and guilt].

   2016, Andrew J. Counter, The Amorous Restoration, page 94