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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Musset

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

Even so, it seduced French writers, among them Henri Beyle, better known as Stendhal, and Alfred de Musset, the poet and dramatist.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 30, 2013

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

Schumann and Chopin, Berlioz and Liszt, Wagner—in a class by himself—are a few that may be cited; not to mention Victor Hugo, Delacroix, Gautier, Alfred de Musset, Stendhal.

From Franz Liszt by James Huneker