Vigny

American  

[vee-nyee] / viˈnyi /

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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Example Sentences

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

From Salon

Théophile Gautier, writing about the effect of Vigny’s Chatterton on the youth of Paris, said that in the nineteenth-century night one could practically hear the crack of the solitary pistols: here, now, in Hampden, the night was alive with the flushing of toilets.

From Literature

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

One of the most unexceptionable and attractive writers of modern France is De Vigny.

From Project Gutenberg

To sum up this imperfect account of the merits of these Novelists: I see De Vigny, a retiring figure, the gentleman, the solitary thinker, but, in his way, the efficient foe of false honor and superstitious prejudice; Balzac is the heartless surgeon, probing the wounds and describing the delirium of suffering men for the amusement of his students; Sue, a bold and glittering crusader, with endless ballads jingling in the silence of the night before the battle.

From Project Gutenberg