Le voyage italien en tant que prétexte de réflexion sur la religion catholique. Cas de Chateaubriand.

This paper is a part of a major dissertation regarding the analysis of the political and ideological discourse in the italian journey descriptions by two big personalities of the french romanticism: François-René de Chateaubriand and Henri Beyle (Stendhal). The aim of this article ist to reveal the Chateaubriand´s arguments in favor of the catholicism and of the pope´s power. We try to rediscover his vision of the Church and the meaning he give to it in the public life. We would like also to emphasize the importance of the liberty, typical of this writer.