Resumen de Cynthie ou la réécriture de l'élégie dans les Mémoires d'outre-tombe
Chateaubriand, displacing this invocation from the time of its composition (his tenure as embassador in Rome), to his return to Paris from a failed mission in Prague in 1833, points to a reading beyond the pastiche of elegy to its deep affinity with death — an epitome of the "Memoirs".
