Musset

American  

[my-sey] / müˈseɪ /

noun

1. (Louis Charles) Alfred de 1810–57, French poet, dramatist, and novelist.

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Musset British  

/ mysɛ /

noun

1. Alfred de (alfrɛd də). 1810–57, French romantic poet and dramatist: his works include the play Lorenzaccio (1834) and the lyrics Les Nuits (1835–37), tracing his love affair with George Sand

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Example Sentences

She has woven her own hair into a dried rose; the catalogue states that inspiration came from Sand’s rupture with Alfred de Musset, one of her infamous lovers, when they exchanged twists of curls.

From Economist

Or “Georgia Sand,” a typical exercise in rhymed name-dropping — about the romance between George Sand and Alfred de Musset, no less — that almost feels like a Porter parody?

From New York Times

Mr. Gaultier said backstage that his stint on the jury at this spring’s Cannes Film Festival introduced him to the movie of the French author Alfred de Musset’s “Confessions of a Child of the Century.”

From New York Times

Posters based on the famous images of Bernhardt in La Dame aux Camélias and Musset's Lorenzaccio adorn the walls; whenever Janice Watson's Silvia looks in her mirror, it is her younger self that gazes back.

From The Guardian

He says he knew the work of Alfred De Musset, the French poet and novelist who wrote Confession.

From The Guardian