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This week, La Foi prise au mot is interested in a major work of French-speaking literary heritage: Le Génie du christianisme by Chateaubriand. The influence of this book published in 1802 is almost unbelievable. Not only did it lay the foundations of this 19th century aesthetic movement that is usually called “Romanticism”, but above all, it populated our imagination with a certain number of clichés about the history of Christianity that still exist today. Do you think that Gothic art is the pinnacle of church architecture? That comes from Chateaubriand. Do you believe that the French Revolution was prepared by the disbelief of the Enlightenment and that it is the worst catastrophe in European religious history? That can be found in Le Génie du Christianity. Do you think that France has always been a large, uniformly Christian country inhabited and carried by popular faith? Always Le Génie du christianisme. Let us therefore discover this major book in the company of Regis Burnet's two guests: Guy Berger, president of the Chateaubriand Society, and Nicolas Pérot, member of the Chateaubriand Society's Steering Committee. La Foi prise au Mot of 09/09/2018.