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Vigny, Alfred Victor, comte de
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Vigny, Alfred Victor, comte de (1797–1863)

French Romantic writer. His works, pervaded by an air of melancholy Stoicism, include the historical novel Cinq-Mars 1826, the play Chatterton 1835, and poetry, for example, Les Destinées/Destinies 1864.



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Yet although the authors have clearly enjoyed these books for their own sakes, they also have historical points to make: just as the 1760s saw a period of Anglophilia reflected in French fiction, so after the Revolution Anglophobia can be measured by the works of Stendhal, de Vigny and Balzac, where the English can pretty well be relied on to be the villains (by the Tombs' count, nearly all of the 31 English characters in Balzac are morally reprehensible).
Alfred de Vigny declared, "The Academie has one great misfortune: it is the only lasting corporation that has never stopped being ridiculous," and became an Academicien.
 
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