International audienceChateaubriand's career developed at a time when the social and institutional structures of the Ancien Régime had been defeated by the developments that led to the Revolution. In this period of literary history without a dominant school, new communities were invented. From then on, his case questions literary sociabilities; it shows the variety and complexity of the "societies" that were the crucible of his works and his poetics From then on, his case questions the very notion of literary sociability through the variety and complexity of the "societies" that were the crucible of his works and his poeticsLa carrière de Chateaubriand s’est développée dans un moment où les structures sociales et institutionnelles de l’Anci...