biography
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Vigny, Alfred Victor, comte de (Count of)
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pronunciation:
[veenyee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1797–1863)
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| biography:
| Romantic writer, born in Loches, WC France. He served in the army (1814–28), then turned to writing. His best-known works include the historical novel Cinq-Mars (1826), a volume of exhortatory tales Stello (1832), and the Romantic drama Chatterton (1835). Several other works, including his journal and the philosophical poems, Les Destinées (1864, Destinies), were published after his death. |
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