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2 unusual facts about Les Martyrs


Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg

One of these, Le Sérapéon, received reviews which implied it bore a very close resemblance to François-René de Chateaubriand's 1809 novel Les Martyrs.

François-Benoît Hoffman

His severe criticism of Chateaubriand's Les Martyrs led the author to make some changes in a later edition.



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Druid

Chateaubriand's novel Les Martyrs (1809) narrated the doomed love of a druid priestess and a Roman soldier; though Chateaubriand's theme was the triumph of Christianity over Pagan druids, the setting was to continue to bear fruit.