Politician, diplomat, historian, poet, novelist, journalist, essayist, writer, soldier, translator, biographer… All these titles belong to one man – and that’s no exaggeration!
François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand, a figure of French literature, fell so deeply in love with Greece –its struggles for freedom, its people, its places, and its history– that toward the end of his life he asked to die as a Greek!
Chateaubriand, as he is more commonly known to most of us, through his way of life “forced” Victor Hugo to write the famous line: “I want to be Chateaubriand or nothing.”
“Time in Greece” turns back the calendar of history to a day like today, September 4th, 1768. On that day, in Brittany, was born the founder of French Romanticism. Step by step we follow his journey and discover details about his life and work, some of them little known to the wider public…