Vigny, Alfred-Victor, count de
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died Sept. 17, 1863, Paris
French poet, dramatist, and novelist.
Vigny embarked on a military career but turned to writing Romantic poetry; his verse was critically and popularly acclaimed. His
Cinq-Mars (1826) was the first important historical novel in French. Growing disillusioned, he wrote
Stello (1832), on the advisability of separating the poetic life from the political.
Chatterton (1835), his best play and one of the finest Romantic dramas, glorifies the anguish of the misunderstood artist. His pessimism was manifest also in
The Military Necessity (1835), whose first and third stories are his prose masterpieces. In middle age he withdrew from Paris society. His later writings include poetry collected posthumously in
Les Destinées (1864).
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