Alfred de Musset
Alfred Louis Charles of Musset , born the December 11th 1810 with Paris and dead the May 2nd 1857 in Paris, is a poet, dramatic author and French novelist.
Biography
Alfred de Musset was born in Paris on December 11th, 1810 within a family where one has the taste of the letters and arts.Alfred de Musset belongs to an easy, affectionate and cultivated family. His/her grandfather was poet, and his/her father was a specialist in Rousseau, of which it published works. The figure of Rousseau in fact played a crucial role in the work of the poet. It paid homage on several occasions to him, attacker on the contrary violently Voltaire, the adversary of Rousseau. It enters to the college Henri-Iv at 18 years - one finds there still today a statue of the poet - and there obtains in 1827 the Price of Latin essay to the open Competition. Thanks to Paul Fouché, the brother-in-law of Victor Hugo, he attends as of the 17 years age the Coterie, living room of Charles Nodier with the Bibliothèque of the Arsenal. He sympathizes then with Holy-Beuve and Vigny, and refuses to adulate the “Master” Victor Hugo. He will make fun in particular the night walks of the coterie on the lathes of Notre-Dame. After being itself tested with medicine, with the right, the drawing, English, the piano and the saxophone it will show a great ease of writing, behaving like a virtuoso of the young poetry. At 20 years, its literary notoriety incipient is accompanied already by a sulfurous reputation supplied with its side dandy and its vices repeated in the company from the Parisian demi-mondaines.
Musset tries its chance with the theater. But after the failure of its Venetian Night , the author says “good-bye to the menagerie, and for a long time” (Letter with P. Calais), until 1847. At that time, become alcoholic, it could return more serene there. Does in December 1832 appear the first Spectacle in an armchair , which is composed of a drama, the Cut and the Lips , of a comedy, With what dream the young girls? and of an Eastern tale, Namouna . Musset already expresses in this collection the painful tension between vice and purity which dominates its work.
It leaves for Italy, in company of George Sand, voyage which inspires to him Lorenzaccio , romantic drama which it will write in 1834. It then publishes the Contes of Spain and Italy . But Musset falls ill and George Sand become the mistress of her doctor, Pietro Pagello. It returns to Paris, where it makes play comedies: the Candlestick , '' One badine not with the Love '', You can't be sure of anything which remained with the repertory of the Th3e4atre Fran1cais; he also writes news in prose and the Confession of a child of the century , hardly disguised autobiography dedicated to George Sand. He transposes the endured sufferings there. Of 1835 to 1837, Musset composes its chief of lyric work, the Nights . These poems are the Nights of May, of July, of October, of December, around the overlapping topics of the pain, the love and the inspiration. These poetries, very sentimental, are today regarded as one of the works most representative of the French Romantisme.
Librarian of the ministry for the Interior under the Monarchy of July, it is revoked in 1848, then becomes librarian of the ministry for the State education under the Second Empire. He receives the Légion of honor on April 24th 1845, at the same time as Balzac, and is elected with the French Academy in 1852, after two failures in 1848 and 1850. Of fragile health (cardiac malformation), but especially in prey with alcoholism, idleness and the vice he dies on May 2nd 1857, somewhat forgotten.
His/her older brother Paul de Musset will play a great part in the redécouverte of the work of Musset, by the drafting of biographies, the republication of great number of his works…
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