Vigny

American  

[vee-nyee] / viˈnji /

noun

1. Alfred Victor de 1797–1863, French poet, novelist, and dramatist.

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Vigny British  

/ viɲi /

noun

1. Alfred Victor de (alfrɛd viktɔr də). 1797–1863, French romantic poet, novelist, and dramatist, noted for his pessimistic lyric verse Poèmes antiques et modernes (1826) and Les Destinées (1864), the novel Cinq-Mars (1826), and the play Chatterton (1835)

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Vigny

They were latter-day Romantics, growing up on the writers Lamartine, Vigny and Victor Hugo.

From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2021

I knew it only from a fading memory of French poetry from the sixth form: in the poem by Vigny, this was how the wolf suffered and died, without speaking.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 30, 2019

Delacroix painted in Nohant's garden studio, and such famous guests as Balzac, Theophile Gautier and Alfred de Vigny argued and tittle-tattled in its drawing room.

From Time Magazine Archive

These two stories, however, fill scarcely more than a third of the book, and the other two-thirds, subtracting the moral at the end, deal with a matter which Vigny, once more, understood thoroughly.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George

Soulié and De Vigny won their fame with poems and plays in the early twenties, De Musset and Chénier followed before a decade had passed, and Gautier was still serving his apprenticeship.

From Dumas' Paris by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)