Very regular numerous biographies and also amateur player of the literature of Jean d'Ormesson, I immersed myself in this book ... Las greedily! what was my disappointment! Jean d'Ormesson seems more concerned to allow a book to his posthumous fame, who do not yet need not, that make us live, know and understand Chateaubriand. This catalog of female success of "master" of Victor Hugo ("I want to be Chateaubriand or nothing") made us turn the head and quickly called boredom. If you really like Chateaubriand, but read his "Memoires d'Outre-Tombe" which are a literary delight plus an irreplaceable testimony on the events of his century.