Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1893 — CHATEAUBRIAND’S GRAVE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CHATEAUBRIAND’S GRAVE.

The Great Frenchman Buried on the Lonely Kock Where He Whs Born. Chateaubriand, the famous French author who, after dining with Washington at Philadelphia, said, “There Is virtue in the look of a great man,” is buried at the actual spot where he was born, and probably no one was

ever laid in a stranger resting place. It is on a jutting point of rock in a lonely, exposed position. The father and mother of the Vieomte Chateaubriand were on board a vessel bound for St. Male. It was night when they neared the coast, and a terrific storm was raging. No boat could venture to the assistance of the crew, and the vessel was wrecked upon a rock not far from the shore. The mother of Chateaubriand passed the night upon the rock, and there he was born. He afterward purchased the rock and built upon it the tomb in which he now lies.

THE GRAVE OF CHATEAUBRIAND.