Chateaubriands Last Love

One stormy evening in 1829 the aging writer René de Chateaubriand takes refuge in a mountain retreat at Cauterets a small town in the Pyrenees Here he meets Léontine de Villeneuve an aristocratic woman forty years his junior who ignites his passion and who seems to be as equally attracted to him Under the watchful gaze of the maître dhôtel Chateaubriand embarks on what will be his last great love affair with a woman he will later refer to in his writings as LOccitanienne