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Alfred de Musset entered the lycée Henri-IV at the age of nine, where in 1827 he won the Latin essay prize in the Concours général at age 17. With the help of Paul Foucher, Victor Hugo 's brother-in-law, he began to attend, at the age of 17, the Cénacle, the literary salon of Charles Nodier at the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal.
Alfred de Musset was a French Romantic dramatist and poet, best known for his plays. Musset’s autobiographical La Confession d’un enfant du siècle (1836; The Confession of a Child of the Century), if not entirely trustworthy, presents a striking picture of Musset’s youth as a member of a noble
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Alfred de Musset was a French dramatist and poet, regarded as one of the first Romantic writers. This biography of Alfred de Musset provides detailed information about his childhood, life, achievements, works & timeline.
From the ages of nine to seventeen, Musset studied at the Collège Henri IV in Paris, where he quickly established and maintained a reputation as a student of great talent and application,...
In 1828, when the war between the classical and the romantic school of literature was growing daily more serious and exciting, Musset, who had published some verses in a country newspaper, boldly recited some of his work to Sainte-Beuve, who wrote of it to a friend, "Theere is amongst us a boy full of genius."
Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay (French pronunciation: [al.fʁɛd də my.sɛ]; December 11, 1810 – May 2, 1857) was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist. Along with his poetry, he is known for writing the autobiographical novel La Confession d'un enfant du siècle ( The Confession of a Child of the Century ).
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[Louis Charles Alfred]. French poet, playwright and novelist, born on the 11th of December 1810 in a house in the middle of old Paris, near the Hôtel Cluny. His father, Victor de Musset, who traced his descent back as far as 1140, held several ministerial posts of importance.
