About
Alfred de Musset, born in Paris in 1810, was a French Romantic writer. A precocious poet, he published his first collection, Contes d'Espagne et d'Italie, at nineteen. As a playwright, he wrote works such as Lorenzaccio and On ne badine pas avec l'amour, often blending irony and melancholy. His autobiographical novel, La Confession d'un enfant du siècle, draws on his tumultuous affair with George Sand. Elected to the Académie française in 1852, he died in Paris in 1857.
* 1810-12-11 — † 1857-05-02
Major works
- Contes d'Espagne et d'Italie (1829)poetry collection
- Lorenzaccio (1834)play
- On ne badine pas avec l'amour (1834)play
- La Confession d'un enfant du siècle (1836)novel
- Les Nuits (1835)poetry cycle
Key milestones
- 1845Appointed Knight of the Legion of Honour.
- 1852Elected to the Académie française.
- 1857Dies in Paris, buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery.
Themes
love and passionmelancholy and disillusionmentirony and satireyouth and revoltdestiny and fatality
Sources: academie-francaise.fr · data.bnf.fr · britishmuseum.org