Thus he firmly believed in the Church doctrine that the Jews are ordained to permanent existence in a state of guilt, as a "deicide" people who had abjured and crucified the Savior (see, for instance, his essay on Sir Walter Scott). Chateaubriand was a literary genius who drew inspiration from his native Brittany with its medieval and ultra-Catholic traditions. He led Catholic reaction against revolutionary ideas along with theorists such as De *Bonald, and De Maistre. CHATEAUBRIAND, FRANÇOIS RENÉ, VICOMTE DE° (1768–1848), French author, born in St.
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