Chateaubriand in all its ethos From the Circle of Joubert to the “bella scuola”

Chateaubriand's ethos in society is difficult to characterize because between the time when he read his texts in Joubert's group (1802) and the time when Ampère read his Mémoires at Madame Récamier’s, Chateaubriand was become a celebrity whose community of belonging is no longer that of the living, but that of the great dead. His posture in the paintings and drawings shows it clearly: he went from an emotional sociability of the self to an immaterial sociability between universal geniuses.