262 years ago today, September 4, 1763 (July 27, 1763 in the lunar calendar), French writer Chateaubriand was born. Chateaubriand was a well-known French writer in the 19th century. His negative romantic literature had a profound influence on French literature at that time. On September 4, 1763, Chateaubriand was born into a declining aristocratic family. He was arrogant, conceited, and full of illusions since childhood, and was naturally lonely and melancholy. In 1786, he entered the military and became a lieutenant. Because his eldest brother was the grandson-in-law of King Louis XVI's prime minister, he was able to make a name for himself in Paris society and the court, and to enter the literary circle. When the bourgeois revolution broke out in France in 1789, he sided with the king and directly participated in military activities against the revolution. In 1793, he lived in Belgium and the United States and began literary creation activities. He published his first work,"A History of the Revolution", and wrote "Travels in America" and the prose epic "The Nacihez People". In 1800, Chateaubriand returned to France and completed his lyrical thesis "The True Meaning of Christianity". After the article was published, it had a great influence in France. Napoleon began to win him over and appointed him as secretary of the embassy in Rome. However, Chateaubriand always adhered to his stance of defending the king and did not approve of Napoleon's policies. Therefore, he resigned in 1804 and published an article insinuating the tyranny of the Napoleon Empire in the "Mercury News", which he sponsored. Napoleon ordered the ban on the Mercury News. In 1811, he was elected a member of the French Academy of Baccalaureate, but Napoleon refused to recognize it. After that, he left Paris and did not return to Paris until the restoration of the Bourbon Dynasty in 1814. From then on, he rose to the top, becoming a member of the House of Lords, and soon became Foreign Minister. In 1830, the Bourbon Dynasty fell, and he specialized in writing until his death in 1848. Chateaubriand is a thoroughly negative romantic writer. Not only did he have a strong negative romanticism in his works, but he also created the foundation of negative romanticism. His works are elegant in writing, gorgeous in rhetoric and full of poetry, but their mood is melancholy, sad, and even a little artificial. Marx said of Chateaubriand's work: "If this man is so famous in France, it is only because he is in every way the most typical embodiment of French vanity, which is not dressed in the frivolous costumes of the 18th century, but is dressed in romantic costumes and flaunted with new rhetoric, the depth of hypocrisy, the exaggeration of Byzantine style, the display of emotion, the change of color, the carving of words, the affectation, and the arrogance of arrogance. In short, it is an unprecedented hodgepodge of lies, both in form and content."