| Summary: | The present article constitutes an approach to the subject of intentional and involuntary exile in the romantic
works “Atala”, René, Les Natchez by François-René de Chateaubriand, Course au Lac Onéida, Quinze Jours au
Désert by Alexis de Tocqueville and Marie où l’Esclavage aux Etats-Unis by Gustave de Beaumont. Exile will be
examined as a proof of love for the country (philopatrie), as a weakness or unwillingness of the French people
to maintain their presence on the American soil, and as a farewell to the fallen nobility. My study will be based
on the structural analysis of myth as developed and applied by the French anthropologist and ethnologist
Claude Lévi-Strauss. The repeated components will be retrieved, classified and analyzed in order to
demonstrate that the romantic devices and subjects used by the writers, are a mere pretext, a means through
which Chateaubriand, Tocqueville and Beaumont transmit their philosophical ideas and socio-political
ideologies regarding America and France.
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