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

Vigny has, as we shall see, touched on the less enormous and flagrant—but as individual things scarcely less atrocious—crimes of the Directory in the first story of his next book.

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

To an Englishman the next episode may be less satisfactory, though it was very popular in France under its original form, and still more so when Vigny dramatised it in his famous Chatterton.

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

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