Cri de Chateaubriand, surdité de Sainte-Beuve, cécité de la canaille moderne !

According to Proust, all intelligent readers are Romantics. Originally a Romantic, Sainte-Beuve defied traditional anti-biographical criticism by paving the way for a biographical method capable of probing the mystery of geniuses and their creations. In the case of Chateaubriand, Sainte-Beuve can only be blamed from the moment he joined the cohort of those who turned Chateaubriand into an imposter by doubting his sincerity, intellectual life, and genius.