Some notes on Chateaubriand's work "Mémoires d'outre-tombe."

Volume I

It was interesting to read in page 424 where he says that the famous lines from Gray's Elegy are taken from Dante:

"The curfew tolls the knell of parting day."

And in Dante:

"Squilla di lontano

Che paja'l giorno pianger che si muore."

He translates both into French as:

Le vers de Gray:

<< La cloche du couvre-feu tinte le glas du jour qui nous quitte >>

imite Dante :

<< La cloche qui dans le lointain semble pleurer le jour qui se meurt. >>

Divine Comédie, Purgatoire, VIII, 1-6.