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Chateaubriand in new York State
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 December 2020
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In 1915 Gilbert Chinard concluded his study of Chateaubriand en Amérique with the words: “Si inconnu qu'il fût à cette date, Chateaubriand a pu laisser des traces de son passage; on le trouvera peut-être un jour mentionné dans quelque correspondance d'émigré, dans un journal de colon conservé dans les archives d'une société historique de quelque petite ville de la Nouvelle-Angleterre ou du Canada. D'ici là, il sera sage de se garder à la fois des affirmations trop hardies et des hypothèses trop séduisantes.” Such an investigation as the eminent américanisant suggested seemed an excellent exercise for young scholars established close to Chateaubriand's line of march. Thus, in the autumn of 1952 I imposed on a graduate seminar the task of examining all the known records of the year 1791 in New York State. All the local historical societies were questioned; manuscript collections and newspaper files were consulted; the aid of specialists in the period was invoked.
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