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=== Exile in London === Chateaubriand spent most of his exile in poverty in London, scraping a living offering French lessons and doing translation work, but also worked as a French teacher in [[Beccles]] in [[Suffolk]]. While he was in Suffolk he fell in love with Charlotte Ives, the daughter of a clergyman living in [[Bungay]], but the romance ended when he was forced to reveal he was already married.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/chateaubriandhis00grib/mode/2up|title=Chateaubriand and his court of women|first=Francis|last=Gribble|publisher=Chapman and Hall Ltd|location=London|date=1909|page=51-56}}</ref> During his time in Britain, Chateaubriand also became familiar with [[English literature]]. This reading, particularly of [[John Milton]]'s ''[[Paradise Lost]]'' (which he later translated into French prose), had a deep influence on his own literary work. His exile forced Chateaubriand to examine the causes of the French Revolution, which had cost the lives of many of his family and friends; these reflections inspired his first work, ''Essai sur les Révolutions'' (1797). An attempt in 18th-century style to explain the French Revolution, it predated his subsequent, romantic style of writing and was largely ignored. A major turning point in Chateaubriand's life was his conversion back to the [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] faith of his childhood around 1798.
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