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First edition - CHATEAUBRIAND (François-Auguste-René). Atala ou Les Amours de deux Sauvages dans le Désert. Paris, Migneret et l'ancienne librairie de Dupont, An IX (1801), in-18, XXIV-210 p., later binding in brown half leather of Russié with corners, smooth spine, gilt title and date. Genuine first edition, not very common, of this masterpiece which marked the beginning of French Romanticism. The success of this text was dazzling, hence the numerous editions published the same year - no less than five between April 1801 and April 1802. Only the first one, this one, contained 210 pages. A very rare and sought-after work according to Carteret, very rare according to Clouzot: "Various forgeries, easy to recognize, none of them having 210 pages. Atala was then retouched in various editions, then integrated into those of the Genius of Christianity." We know what effect the reading of this tragic idyll between the Indian Chactas and the beautiful Atala produced on the heart and senses of Pauline de Beaumont, who decided, in addition to her admiration for the writer, to meet him and to be loved by the man. Her affair with the author of Atala was first of all a sensual adventure for the reader, as she wrote to her friend Joubert: "Chateaubriand's style makes me feel a kind of shiver of love; he plays the harpsichord on all my fibres".
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First edition - CHATEAUBRIAND (François-Auguste-René). Atala ou Les Amours de deux Sauvages dans le Désert. Paris, Migneret et l'ancienne librairie de Dupont, An IX (1801), in-18, XXIV-210 p., later binding in brown half leather of Russié with corners, smooth spine, gilt title and date. Genuine first edition, not very common, of this masterpiece which marked the beginning of French Romanticism. The success of this text was dazzling, hence the numerous editions published the same year - no less than five between April 1801 and April 1802. Only the first one, this one, contained 210 pages. A very rare and sought-after work according to Carteret, very rare according to Clouzot: "Various forgeries, easy to recognize, none of them having 210 pages. Atala was then retouched in various editions, then integrated into those of the Genius of Christianity." We know what effect the reading of this tragic idyll between the Indian Chactas and the beautiful Atala produced on the heart and senses of Pauline de Beaumont, who decided, in addition to her admiration for the writer, to meet him and to be loved by the man. Her affair with the author of Atala was first of all a sensual adventure for the reader, as she wrote to her friend Joubert: "Chateaubriand's style makes me feel a kind of shiver of love; he plays the harpsichord on all my fibres".
