François-René de Chateaubriand brass plaque
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# Paddington Street Gardens, Marylebone Standing in the quiet refuge of Paddington Street Gardens in 1793, a young French aristocrat named François-René de Chateaubriand occupied a modest garret nearby, having fled the Terror that had consumed his homeland and claimed so many of his peers. In this ...
Location
Paddington Street Gardens, Marylebone, W1
Inscription
In 1793 the author of "Memoires D'Outre-Tombe" Chateaubriand 1768–1848 lived as an emigre in a garret close to this site and began his literary career. He returned in 1822 as French Ambassador and resided in Portland Place