Musset
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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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 ● Jul. 26, 2018
Alfred de Musset, in a sonnet dedicated to Victor Hugo, wrote that in this “low world” you should love many things, in order to know at the end the thing you love best.
From Slate ● Jun. 17, 2015
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 ● Jul. 13, 2012
He says he knew the work of Alfred De Musset, the French poet and novelist who wrote Confession.
From The Guardian ● May 24, 2012
De Musset adds no reference to the source of this alleged letter, which is mentioned by neither Magrini nor Masi.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Gozzi, Carlo
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