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Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay (; 11 December 1810 – 2 May 1857) was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist.His names are often reversed "Louis Charles Alfred de Musset": see "(Louis Charles) Alfred de Musset" (bio), Biography.com, 2007, webpage
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. 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'').
Musset was born in Paris. His family was upper-class but poor; his father worked in various key government positions, but never gave his son any money. Musset's mother came from similar circumstances, and her role as a society hostess – for example her drawing-room parties, luncheons and dinners held in the Musset residence – left a lasting impression on young Alfred.
An early indication of his boyhood talents was his fondness for acting impromptu mini-plays based upon episodes from old romance stories he had read. Years later, elder brother Paul de Musset would preserve these and many other details, for posterity, in a biography of his famous younger brother.
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. With the help of 
Musset was dismissed from his post as librarian by the new minister
The French poet Arthur Rimbaud was highly critical of Musset's work. Rimbaud wrote in his ''Letters of a Seer'' (''Lettres du Voyant'') that Musset did not accomplish anything because he "closed his eyes" before the visions (letter to Paul Demeny, May 1871).
Director
''Pearls of Thought.''
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Company, p. 266.
"De Musset."
In: ''European Literature in the Nineteenth Century''. London: Chapman & Hall, pp. 252–266. * Gochberg, Herbert S. (1967). ''Stage of Dreams: The Dramatic Art of Alfred de Musset (1828-1834)''. Geneva: Librairie Droz. * Majewski, Henry F. (1989). ''Paradigm & Parody: Images of Creativity in French Romanticism''. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia. * Rees, Margaret A. (1971). ''Alfred de Musset''. New York City: Twayne Publishers. * Sedgewick, Henry D. (1931). ''Alfred de Musset, 1810–1857''. Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs–Merrill Company. * Sices, David (1974). ''The Theatre of Solitude. The Drama of Alfred de Musset''. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England.
"Alfred de Musset, Poet"
''The Edinburgh Review'', Vol. CCIV, 1906, pp. 103–132. * Barine, Arvède (1906)
''The Life of Alfred de Musset''
New York: Edwin C. Hill Company. * Besant, Walter (1893)
"Alfred de Musset."
In: ''Essays and Historiettes.'' London: Chatto & Windus, pp. 144–169. * Beus, Yifen (2003). "Alfred de Musset's Romantic Irony," ''Nineteenth-Century French Studies,'' Vol. XXXI, No. 3/4, pp. 197–209. * Bishop, Lloyd (1979). "Romantic Irony in Musset's 'Namouna'," ''Nineteenth-Century French Studies,'' Vol. VII, No. 3/4, pp. 181–191. * Bourcier, Richard J. (1984). "Alfred de Musset: Poetry and Music," ''The American Benedictine Review,'' Vol. XXXV, pp. 17–24. * Brandes, Georg (1904)
''Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature,''
Vol. V. New York: The Macmillan Company, pp. 90–131. * Denommé, Robert Thomas (1969). ''Nineteenth-century French Romantic Poets.'' Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. * Gamble, D.R. (1989–1990). "Alfred de Musset and the Uses of Experience," ''Nineteenth-Century French Studies,'' Vol. XVIII, No. 1/2, pp. 78–84. * Gooder, Jean (1986). "Alive or Dead? Alfred de Musset's Supper with Rachel," ''The Cambridge Quarterly,'' Vol. XV, No. 2, pp. 173–187. * Grayson Jane (1995). "The French Connection: Nabokov and Alfred de Musset. Ideas and Practices of Translation," ''The Slavonic and East European Review,'' Vol. LXXIII, No. 4, pp. 613–658. * Greet, Anne Hyde (1967). "Humor in the Poetry of Alfred de Musset," ''Studies in Romanticism,'' Vol. VI, No. 3, pp. 175–192. * James, Henry (1878)
"Alfred de Musset."
In: ''French Poets and Novelists.'' London: Macmillan & Co., pp. 1–38. * Lefebvre, Henri (1970). ''Musset: Essai''. Paris: L'Arche. * Levin, Susan (1998). ''The Romantic Art of Confession.'' Columbia, SC: Camden House. * Mauris, Maurice (1880)
"Alfred de Musset."
In: ''French Men of Letters.'' New York: D. Appleton and Company, pp. 35–65. * Mossman, Carol (2009). '' Writing with a Vengeance: The Countess de Chabrillan's Rise from Prostitution. '' Toronto: University of Toronto Press. * Musset, Paul de (1877)
''The Biography of Alfred de Musset.''
Boston: Roberts Brothers. * Oliphant, Cyril Francis (1890)
''Alfred de Musset.''
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons. * Padgett, Graham (1981). "Bad Faith in Alfred de Musset: A Problem of Interpretation," ''Dalhousie French Studies,'' Vol. III, pp. 65–82. * Palgrave, Francis T. (1855)
"The Works of Alfred de Musset."
In: ''Oxford Essays.'' London: John W. Parker, pp. 80–104. * Pitwood, Michael (1985). "Musset." In: ''Dante and the French Romantics.'' Genève: Librairie Droz, pp. 209–217. * Pollock, Walter Herries (1879)
"Alfred de Musset."
In: ''Lectures on French Poets.'' London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., pp. 43–96. * Rees, Margaret A. (1963). "Imagery in the Plays of Alfred de Musset," ''The French Review,'' Vol. XXXVI, No. 3, pp. 245–254. * Sainte-Beuve, C.A. (1891)
"Alfred de Musset."
In: ''Portraits of Men.'' London: David Scott, pp. 23–35. * Stothert, James (1878)
"Alfred de Musset,"
''The Gentleman's Magazine,'' Vol. CCXLIII, pp. 215–234. * Thomas, Merlin (1985). "Alfred de Musset: Don Juan on the Boulevard de Gand." In: ''Myths and its Making in the French Theatre.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 158–165. * Trent, William P. (1899)
"Tennyson and Musset Once More."
In: ''The Authority of Criticism.'' New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, pp. 269–291. * Wright, Rachel L. (1992). "Male Reflectors in the Drama of Alfred de Musset," ''The French Review,'' Vol. LXV, No. 3, pp. 393–401.
"Sand et Musset, les Amants du siècle"
* The New Student's Reference Work/Musset, Alfred de *
'Lorenzaccio' – at Athena
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. 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'').
Biography
Musset was born in Paris. His family was upper-class but poor; his father worked in various key government positions, but never gave his son any money. Musset's mother came from similar circumstances, and her role as a society hostess – for example her drawing-room parties, luncheons and dinners held in the Musset residence – left a lasting impression on young Alfred.
An early indication of his boyhood talents was his fondness for acting impromptu mini-plays based upon episodes from old romance stories he had read. Years later, elder brother Paul de Musset would preserve these and many other details, for posterity, in a biography of his famous younger brother.
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. With the help of Paul Foucher
Paul-Henri Foucher (21 April 1810 – 24 January 1875) was a French playwright, theatre and music critic, political journalist, and novelist.
Biography
Early career
Foucher was born in Paris and began his career as an employee in the offices of t ...
, Victor Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo (; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. He is considered to be one of the great ...
's brother-in-law, he began to attend, at the age of 17, the Cénacle
Cénacle is the name given to a Parisian literary group of varying constituency that began about 1826 to gather around Charles Nodier. The group sought to revive in French literature the old monarchical spirit, the spirit of medieval mystery and ...
, the literary salon of Charles Nodier at the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal. After attempts at careers in medicine (which he gave up owing to a distaste for dissections), law, drawing, English and piano, he became one of the first Romantic writers, with his first collection of poems, ''Contes d'Espagne et d'Italie'' (1829, Tales of Spain and Italy). By the time he reached the age of 20, his rising literary fame was already accompanied by a sulphurous reputation fed by his dandy side.
He was the librarian of the French Ministry of the Interior under the July Monarchy
The July Monarchy (french: Monarchie de Juillet), officially the Kingdom of France (french: Royaume de France), was a liberal constitutional monarchy in France under , starting on 26 July 1830, with the July Revolution of 1830, and ending 23 ...
. His politics were of a liberal stamp, and he was on good terms with the family of King Louis Philippe. During this time he also involved himself in polemics during the Rhine crisis
The Rhine crisis of 1840 was a diplomatic crisis between the Kingdom of France and the German Confederation, caused by the demand by French minister Adolphe Thiers that the river Rhine be reinstated as France's border in the east, at a loss of so ...
of 1840, caused by the French prime minister Adolphe Thiers
Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers ( , ; 15 April 17973 September 1877) was a French statesman and historian. He was the second elected President of France and first President of the French Third Republic.
Thiers was a key figure in the July Rev ...
, who as Minister of the Interior had been Musset's superior. had demanded that France should own the left bank of the Rhine
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(described as France's "natural boundary"), as it had under Napoleon, despite the territory's German population. These demands were rejected by German songs and poems, including Nikolaus Becker's ''Rheinlied'', which contained the verse: ''"Sie sollen ihn nicht haben, den freien, deutschen Rhein ..."'' (''They shall not have it, the free, German Rhine''). Musset answered to this with a poem of his own: ''"Nous l'avons eu, votre Rhin allemand"'' (''We've had it, your German Rhine'').
The tale of his celebrated love affair with George Sand
Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil (; 1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876), best known by her pen name George Sand (), was a French novelist, memoirist and journalist. One of the most popular writers in Europe in her lifetime, bein ...
in 1833–1835 is told from his point of view in his autobiographical novel ''La Confession d'un Enfant du Siècle'' (''The Confession of a Child of the Century'') (1836), which was made into a 1999 film, ''Children of the Century
''Children of the Century'' (french: Les Enfants du Siècle) is a 1999 French film based on the true tale of the tumultuous love affair between two French literary icons of the 19th century, novelist George Sand (Juliette Binoche) and poet Alfred ...
'', and a 2012 film, ''Confession of a Child of the Century
''Confession of a Child of the Century'' (french: Confession d'un enfant du siècle) is a 2012 historical drama film written and directed by Sylvie Verheyde, based on Alfred de Musset's 1836 autobiographical novel of the same name. The film com ...
'', and is told from her point of view in her ''Elle et lui'' (1859). Musset's ''Nuits'' (Nights) (1835–1837) traces the emotional upheaval of his love for Sand from early despair to final resignation. He is also believed to be the anonymous author of ''Gamiani, or Two Nights of Excess
''Gamiani, or Two Nights of Excess'' (french: Gamiani, ou deux nuits d'excès) is a French erotic novel first published in 1833. Its authorship is anonymous, but it is believed to have been written by Alfred de Musset and the lesbian eponymous h ...
'' (1833), a lesbian erotic novel also believed to be modeled on Sand.
Outside of his relationship with Sand he was a well-known figure in brothels, and is widely accepted to be the anonymous author-client who beat and humiliated the author and courtesan Céleste de Chabrillan
Celeste may refer to:
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* Mount Celeste, unofficial name of a mountain on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
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** Celeste High School, public high school located in the city of Celest ...
, also known as ''La Mogador''.
Musset was dismissed from his post as librarian by the new minister Ledru-Rollin
Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin (; 2 February 1807 – 31 December 1874) was a French lawyer, politician and one of the leaders of the French Revolution of 1848.
Youth
The grandson of Nicolas Philippe Ledru, the celebrated quack doctor known ...
after the revolution of 1848. He was, however, appointed librarian of the Ministry of Public Instruction in 1853.
On 24 April 1845, Musset received the Légion d'honneur
The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon ...
at the same time as Balzac, and was elected to the Académie Française
An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership). The name traces back to Plato's school of philosop ...
in 1852 after two failed attempts in 1848 and 1850.
Alfred de Musset died in his sleep in Paris in 1857. The cause was heart failure, the combination of alcoholism and a longstanding aortic insufficiency. One symptom that had been noticed by his brother was a bobbing of the head as a result of the amplification of the pulse; this was later called de Musset's sign
de Musset's sign is a condition in which there is rhythmic nodding or bobbing of the head in synchrony with the beating of the heart, in general as a result of aortic regurgitation whereby blood from the aorta regurgitates into the left ventricle d ...
. He was buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery
Père Lachaise Cemetery (french: Cimetière du Père-Lachaise ; formerly , "East Cemetery") is the largest cemetery in Paris, France (). With more than 3.5 million visitors annually, it is the most visited necropolis in the world. Notable figure ...
in Paris.
Reception
The French poet Arthur Rimbaud was highly critical of Musset's work. Rimbaud wrote in his ''Letters of a Seer'' (''Lettres du Voyant'') that Musset did not accomplish anything because he "closed his eyes" before the visions (letter to Paul Demeny, May 1871).
Director Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir (; 15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979) was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent era to the end of the 1960s. His films '' ...
's ''La règle du jeu
''The Rules of the Game'' (original French title: ''La règle du jeu'') is a 1939 French satirical comedy-drama film directed by Jean Renoir. The ensemble cast includes Nora Gregor, Paulette Dubost, Mila Parély, Marcel Dalio, Julien Carett ...
'' (''The Rules of the Game'') was inspired by Musset's play ''Les Caprices de Marianne
''Les caprices de Marianne'' is a two-act opéra comique by Henri Sauguet with a French libretto by Jean-Pierre Gredy after Alfred de Musset. It was first performed at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 1954, with the Orchestre de la Société des Co ...
''.
Henri Gervex
Henri Gervex (Paris 10 December 1852 – 7 June 1929 Paris) was a French painter who studied painting under Alexandre Cabanel, Pierre-Nicolas Brisset, and Eugène Fromentin.
Biography Early years
He was the son of Joséphine Peltier and Félix ...
's 1878 painting ''Rolla'' was based on a poem by De Musset. It was rejected by the jury of the Salon de Paris
The Salon (french: Salon), or rarely Paris Salon (French: ''Salon de Paris'' ), beginning in 1667 was the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Between 1748 and 1890 it was arguably the greatest annual or biennial art ...
for immorality, since it features suggestive metaphors in a scene from the poem, with a naked prostitute shown after having sex with her client, but the controversy helped Gervex's career.
Jean Anouilh's ''Eurydice'' (1941) employs an intertextually salient quote of Musset's play ''On ne badine pas avec l'amour'' II.5 (1834), "The Tirade of Perdican" — Vincent and Eurydice's Mother rekindle the glorious days of their earlier acting careers and their own amours, when once his on-stage performance of Perdican's tirade instigated their first dressing-room love scene.
Music
Numerous (often French) composers wrote works using Musset's poetry during the 19th and early 20th century. ; OperaGeorges Bizet
Georges Bizet (; 25 October 18383 June 1875) was a French composer of the Romantic music, Romantic era. Best known for his operas in a career cut short by his early death, Bizet achieved few successes before his final work, ''Carmen'', whi ...
's opera ''Djamileh
''Djamileh'' is an ''opéra comique'' in one act by Georges Bizet to a libretto by Louis Gallet, based on an oriental tale, ''Namouna'', by Alfred de Musset.
Composition history
De Musset wrote ''Namouna'' in 1832, consisting of 147 verses in thr ...
'' (1871, with a libretto by Louis Gallet) is based on Musset's story ''Namouna''. In 1872 Offenbach composed an opéra comique
''Opéra comique'' (; plural: ''opéras comiques'') is a genre of French opera that contains spoken dialogue and arias. It emerged from the popular '' opéras comiques en vaudevilles'' of the Fair Theatres of St Germain and St Laurent (and to a l ...
'' Fantasio'' with a libretto
A libretto (Italian for "booklet") is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical. The term ''libretto'' is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major li ...
by Paul de Musset closely based on the 1834 play of the same name by his brother Alfred. Dame Ethel Smyth composed an opera based on the same work, that premiered in Weimar in 1898. The play ''La Coupe et les lèvres'' was the basis of Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Puccini ( Lucca, 22 December 1858Bruxelles, 29 November 1924) was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas. Regarded as the greatest and most successful proponent of Italian opera after Verdi, he was descended from a long ...
's opera ''Edgar
Edgar is a commonly used English given name, from an Anglo-Saxon name ''Eadgar'' (composed of '' ead'' "rich, prosperous" and '' gar'' "spear").
Like most Anglo-Saxon names, it fell out of use by the later medieval period; it was, however, r ...
'' (1889). '' Fortunio'', a four-act opera
Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically a collaboration between a composer and a libr ...
by André Messager
André Charles Prosper Messager (; 30 December 1853 – 24 February 1929) was a French composer, organist, pianist and conductor. His compositions include eight ballets and thirty opéra comique, opéras comiques, opérettes and other stage wo ...
is based on Musset's 1835 comedy '' Le Chandelier''. ''Les caprices de Marianne
''Les caprices de Marianne'' is a two-act opéra comique by Henri Sauguet with a French libretto by Jean-Pierre Gredy after Alfred de Musset. It was first performed at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 1954, with the Orchestre de la Société des Co ...
'', a two-act opéra comique
''Opéra comique'' (; plural: ''opéras comiques'') is a genre of French opera that contains spoken dialogue and arias. It emerged from the popular '' opéras comiques en vaudevilles'' of the Fair Theatres of St Germain and St Laurent (and to a l ...
by Henri Sauguet
Henri-Pierre Sauguet-Poupard (18 May 1901 – 22 June 1989) was a French composer.
Born in Bordeaux, he adopted his mother's maiden name as part of his professional pseudonym. His output includes operas, ballets, four symphonies (1945, 1949 ...
(1954) is based on the play by Musset. The opera ''Andrea del Sarto'' (1968) by French composer Daniel-Lesur
Daniel Jean-Yves Lesur (19 November 1908 – 2 July 2002) was a French organist and composer. He was the son of the composer Alice Lesur.
Biography
Born in Paris, he entered the Conservatoire de Paris at age 11, studying solfège with Emile Sch ...
was based on Musset's play ''André del Sarto''. ''Lorenzaccio'', which takes place in Medici's Florence, was set to music by the musician Sylvano Bussotti in 1972.
; Song
Bizet set Musset's poems "À une fleur" and "Adieux à Suzon" for voice and piano in 1866; the latter had previously been set by Chabrier in 1862. Pauline Viardot set Musset's poem "Madrid" for voice and piano as part of her 6 Mélodies (1884). The Welsh composer Morfydd Llwyn Owen wrote song settings for Musset's "La Tristesse" and "Chanson de Fortunio". Lili Boulanger's ''Pour les funérailles d'un soldat'' for baritone, mixed chorus and orchestra is a setting of several lines from Act IV of Musset's play ''La Coupe et les lèvres''.
; Instrumental music
Ruggero Leoncavallo
Ruggero (or Ruggiero) Leoncavallo ( , , ; 23 April 18579 August 1919) was an Italian opera composer and librettist. Although he produced numerous operas and other songs throughout his career it is his opera '' Pagliacci'' (1892) that remained ...
's symphonic poem ''La Nuit de Mai'' (1886) was based on Musset's poetry. Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco's ''Cielo di settembre'', op. 1 for solo piano (1910) takes its name from a line of Musset's poem "A quoi rêvent les jeunes filles". The score, in the original publication, is preceded by that line, "Mais vois donc quel beau ciel de septembre…" Rebecca Clarke's ''Viola Sonata'' (1919) is prefaced by two lines from Musset's ''La Nuit de Mai''.
; Other
Shane Briant
Shane Briant (17 August 1946 – 26 May 2021) was an English actor and novelist. Briant studied law at Trinity College Dublin but became a professional actor playing the lead in '' Hamlet'' at the Eblana Theatre, Dublin. Briant is best known ...
played Alfred de Musset in one episode of a 1974 TV drama series, ''Notorious Woman''.
In 2007, Céline Dion recorded a song called "Lettre de George Sand à Alfred de Musset" for her album ''D'elles''.
Quotations
* ''"How glorious it is – and also how painful – to be an exception."'' * ''"Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher."'' * ''"Verity is nudity."''Ballou, Maturin Murray (1881)''Pearls of Thought.''
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Company, p. 266.
Works
Poetry
* ''À Mademoiselle Zoé le Douairin'' (1826) * ''Un rêve'' (1828) * ''Contes d'Espagne et d'Italie'' (1830) * ''La Quittance du diable'' (1830) * ''La Coupe et les lèvres'' (1831) * ''Namouna'' (1831) * ''Rolla'' (1833) * ''Perdican'' (1834) * ''Camille et Rosette'' (1834) * ''L'Espoir en Dieu'' (1838) * ''La Nuit de mai'' (1835) * ''La Nuit de décembre'' (1835) * ''La Nuit d'août'' (1836) * ''La Nuit d'octobre'' (1837) * ''La Nuit d'avril'' (1838) * ''Chanson de Barberine'' (1836) * ''À la Malibran'' (1837) * ''Tristesse'' (1840) * ''Une Soirée perdue'' (1840) * ''Souvenir'' (1841) * ''Le Voyage où il vous plaira'' (1842) * ''Sur la paresse'' (1842) * ''Après une lecture'' (1842) * ''Les Filles de Loth'' (1849) * ''Carmosine'' (1850) * ''Bettine'' (1851) * ''Faustine'' (1851) * ''Œuvres posthumes'' (1860)Plays
* ''La Quittance du diable'' (1830) * '' La Nuit vénitienne'' (1830) ** a failure; from this time until 1847, his plays were published but not performed * ''La Coupe et les lèvres'' (1831) * ''À quoi rêvent les jeunes filles'' (1832) * '' André del Sarto'' (1833) * ''Les Caprices de Marianne
''Les caprices de Marianne'' is a two-act opéra comique by Henri Sauguet with a French libretto by Jean-Pierre Gredy after Alfred de Musset. It was first performed at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 1954, with the Orchestre de la Société des Co ...
'' (1833)
* ''Lorenzaccio
''Lorenzaccio'' is a French play of the Romantic period written by Alfred de Musset in 1834, set in 16th-century Florence, and depicting Lorenzino de' Medici, who killed Florence's tyrant, Alessandro de' Medici, his cousin. Having engaged in deba ...
'' (1833)
* ''Fantasio'' (1834)
* ''On ne badine pas avec l'amour'' (1834)
* '' La Quenouille de Barberine'' (1835)
* '' Le Chandelier'' (1835)
* '' Il ne faut jurer de rien'' (1836)
* ''Faire sans dire'' (1836)
* ''Un Caprice
''Un caprice'' is a play written in 1837 by Alfred de Musset and performed for the first time in 1843 at the French theatre in Saint Petersburg, the Mikhaylovsky Theatre, then in France at the Comédie-Française on 27 November 1847.
It was M ...
'' (1837)
** first performed in 1847, and a huge success, leading to the performance of other plays
* '' Il faut qu'une porte soit ouverte ou fermée'' (1845)
* ''L'Habit vert'' (1849)
* ''Louison'' (1849)
* '' On ne saurait penser à tout'' (1849)
* '' L'Âne et le Ruisseau'' (1855)
Novels
*''La Confession d'un enfant du siècle'' (''The Confession of a Child of the Century'', 1836) * ''Histoire d'un merle blanc'' (''The White Blackbird'', 1842)Short stories and novellas
* ''Emmeline'' (1837) * ''Le Fils du Titien'' (1838) * ''Frédéric et Bernerette'' (1838) * ''Margot'' (1838) * ''Croisilles'' (1839) * ''Les Deux Maîtresses'' (1840) * ''Histoire d'un merle blanc'' (1842) * ''Pierre et Camille'' (1844) * ''Le Secret de Javotte'' (1844) * ''Les Frères Van Buck'' (1844) * ''Mimi Pinson'' (1845) * ''La Mouche'' (1853)In English translation
* ''A Good Little Wife'' (1847) * ''Selections from the Prose and Poetry of Alfred de Musset'' (1870) * ''Tales from Alfred de Musset'' (1888) * ''The Beauty Spot'' (1888) * ''Old and New'' (1890) * ''The Confession of a Child of the Century'' (1892) * ''Barberine'' (1892) * ''The Complete Writings of Alfred de Musset'' (1907) * ''The Green Coat'' (1914) * ''Fantasio'' (1929) * ''Camille and Perdican'' (1961) * ''Historical Dramas'' (1997) * ''Lorenzaccio'' (1998) * ''Twelve Plays'' (2001)Selected filmography
*''On ne badine pas avec l'amour'', directed by Gaston Ravel andTony Lekain
Tony Lekain, real name Tony Théodore Weill, (5 November 1888 – 26 December 1966) was a French film director, who was active during the 1920s and 1930s.
Selected filmography
* 1926 in film, 1926: ''Le Fauteuil 47'' with Gaston Ravel
* 1927 ...
(France, 1924, based on the play ''On ne badine pas avec l'amour'')
*'' Mimi Pinson'', directed by Théo Bergerat
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Selected filmography
* ''Ramparts of Brabant'' (1921)
* ''Belgian Revenge'' (1922)
* ''Mimi Pinson (1924 film), Mimi Pinson'' (1924)
Re ...
(France, 1924, based on the poem ''Mimi Pinson'')
*', directed by Gustaf Molander
Gustaf Harald August Molander (18 November 1888 – 19 June 1973) was a Swedish actor and film director. His parents were director Harald Molander, Sr. (1858–1900) and singer and actress Lydia Molander, ''née'' Wessler, and his brother was th ...
(Sweden, 1926, based on the play ''Il ne faut jurer de rien'')
*''One Does Not Play with Love
''One Does Not Play with Love'' (german: Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe) is a 1926 silent German drama film directed by G. W. Pabst. The film is an adaptation of the 1834 play by Alfred de Musset, ''On ne badine pas avec l'amour''. The film is ...
'', directed by G. W. Pabst (Germany, 1926, based on the play ''On ne badine pas avec l'amour'')
*'' The Rules of the Game'', directed by Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir (; 15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979) was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent era to the end of the 1960s. His films '' ...
(France, 1939, inspired by the play ''Les Caprices de Marianne
''Les caprices de Marianne'' is a two-act opéra comique by Henri Sauguet with a French libretto by Jean-Pierre Gredy after Alfred de Musset. It was first performed at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 1954, with the Orchestre de la Société des Co ...
'')
*''Lorenzaccio
''Lorenzaccio'' is a French play of the Romantic period written by Alfred de Musset in 1834, set in 16th-century Florence, and depicting Lorenzino de' Medici, who killed Florence's tyrant, Alessandro de' Medici, his cousin. Having engaged in deba ...
'', directed by Raffaello Pacini (Italy, 1951, based on the play ''Lorenzaccio
''Lorenzaccio'' is a French play of the Romantic period written by Alfred de Musset in 1834, set in 16th-century Florence, and depicting Lorenzino de' Medici, who killed Florence's tyrant, Alessandro de' Medici, his cousin. Having engaged in deba ...
'')
*'' Mimi Pinson'', directed by Robert Darène (France, 1958, based on the poem ''Mimi Pinson'')
*''No Trifling with Love
''No Trifling with Love'' (french: On ne badine pas avec l'amour) is a 1977 French drama film directed by Caroline Huppert. It is based on the theatrical work of Alfred de Musset of the same name.
Plot
The piece takes place in the castle of t ...
'', directed by Caroline Huppert
Caroline Huppert (born 28 October 1950) is a French film director and screenwriter. She is the sister of French actress Isabelle Huppert and has directed more than 30 films since 1977.
Early life and career
Huppert was born in the 16th arrondis ...
(France, 1977, TV film, based on the play ''On ne badine pas avec l'amour'')
*', directed by Claude Santelli
Claude Santelli (17 June 1923 – 14 December 2001) was a French film director and screenwriter. He directed 25 films between 1968 and 1996.
Selected filmography
* '' Histoire vraie'' (1973)
* '' Madame Baptiste'' (1974)
References
Ext ...
(France, 1974, TV film, based on the novel ''Confession d'un enfant du siècle'')
*', directed by Claude Santelli
Claude Santelli (17 June 1923 – 14 December 2001) was a French film director and screenwriter. He directed 25 films between 1968 and 1996.
Selected filmography
* '' Histoire vraie'' (1973)
* '' Madame Baptiste'' (1974)
References
Ext ...
(France, 1977, TV film, based on the play '' Le Chandelier'')
*', directed by (France, 2005, based on the play ''Il ne faut jurer de rien'')
*''Confession of a Child of the Century
''Confession of a Child of the Century'' (french: Confession d'un enfant du siècle) is a 2012 historical drama film written and directed by Sylvie Verheyde, based on Alfred de Musset's 1836 autobiographical novel of the same name. The film com ...
'', directed by Sylvie Verheyde
Sylvie Verheyde (born 1967) is a French film director, actress, and screenwriter.
Director
The films Verheyde has directed include ''Un frère'' (1997), in which Emma de Caunes won a César Award for Most Promising Actress, ''Princesses'' (200 ...
(France, 2012, based on the novel ''Confession d'un enfant du siècle'')
*'' Two Friends'', directed by Louis Garrel (France, 2015, loosely based on the play ''Les Caprices de Marianne
''Les caprices de Marianne'' is a two-act opéra comique by Henri Sauguet with a French libretto by Jean-Pierre Gredy after Alfred de Musset. It was first performed at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 1954, with the Orchestre de la Société des Co ...
'')
References
Bibliography
* Affron, Charles (2015). ''A Stage For Poets: Studies in the Theatre of Hugo and Musset''. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. * Bishop, Lloyd (1987). ''The Poetry of Alfred de Musset. Styles and Genres''. New York City: Peter Lang. * Croce, Benedetto (1924)"De Musset."
In: ''European Literature in the Nineteenth Century''. London: Chapman & Hall, pp. 252–266. * Gochberg, Herbert S. (1967). ''Stage of Dreams: The Dramatic Art of Alfred de Musset (1828-1834)''. Geneva: Librairie Droz. * Majewski, Henry F. (1989). ''Paradigm & Parody: Images of Creativity in French Romanticism''. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia. * Rees, Margaret A. (1971). ''Alfred de Musset''. New York City: Twayne Publishers. * Sedgewick, Henry D. (1931). ''Alfred de Musset, 1810–1857''. Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs–Merrill Company. * Sices, David (1974). ''The Theatre of Solitude. The Drama of Alfred de Musset''. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England.
Further reading
"Alfred de Musset, Poet"
''The Edinburgh Review'', Vol. CCIV, 1906, pp. 103–132. * Barine, Arvède (1906)
''The Life of Alfred de Musset''
New York: Edwin C. Hill Company. * Besant, Walter (1893)
"Alfred de Musset."
In: ''Essays and Historiettes.'' London: Chatto & Windus, pp. 144–169. * Beus, Yifen (2003). "Alfred de Musset's Romantic Irony," ''Nineteenth-Century French Studies,'' Vol. XXXI, No. 3/4, pp. 197–209. * Bishop, Lloyd (1979). "Romantic Irony in Musset's 'Namouna'," ''Nineteenth-Century French Studies,'' Vol. VII, No. 3/4, pp. 181–191. * Bourcier, Richard J. (1984). "Alfred de Musset: Poetry and Music," ''The American Benedictine Review,'' Vol. XXXV, pp. 17–24. * Brandes, Georg (1904)
''Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature,''
Vol. V. New York: The Macmillan Company, pp. 90–131. * Denommé, Robert Thomas (1969). ''Nineteenth-century French Romantic Poets.'' Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. * Gamble, D.R. (1989–1990). "Alfred de Musset and the Uses of Experience," ''Nineteenth-Century French Studies,'' Vol. XVIII, No. 1/2, pp. 78–84. * Gooder, Jean (1986). "Alive or Dead? Alfred de Musset's Supper with Rachel," ''The Cambridge Quarterly,'' Vol. XV, No. 2, pp. 173–187. * Grayson Jane (1995). "The French Connection: Nabokov and Alfred de Musset. Ideas and Practices of Translation," ''The Slavonic and East European Review,'' Vol. LXXIII, No. 4, pp. 613–658. * Greet, Anne Hyde (1967). "Humor in the Poetry of Alfred de Musset," ''Studies in Romanticism,'' Vol. VI, No. 3, pp. 175–192. * James, Henry (1878)
"Alfred de Musset."
In: ''French Poets and Novelists.'' London: Macmillan & Co., pp. 1–38. * Lefebvre, Henri (1970). ''Musset: Essai''. Paris: L'Arche. * Levin, Susan (1998). ''The Romantic Art of Confession.'' Columbia, SC: Camden House. * Mauris, Maurice (1880)
"Alfred de Musset."
In: ''French Men of Letters.'' New York: D. Appleton and Company, pp. 35–65. * Mossman, Carol (2009). '' Writing with a Vengeance: The Countess de Chabrillan's Rise from Prostitution. '' Toronto: University of Toronto Press. * Musset, Paul de (1877)
''The Biography of Alfred de Musset.''
Boston: Roberts Brothers. * Oliphant, Cyril Francis (1890)
''Alfred de Musset.''
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons. * Padgett, Graham (1981). "Bad Faith in Alfred de Musset: A Problem of Interpretation," ''Dalhousie French Studies,'' Vol. III, pp. 65–82. * Palgrave, Francis T. (1855)
"The Works of Alfred de Musset."
In: ''Oxford Essays.'' London: John W. Parker, pp. 80–104. * Pitwood, Michael (1985). "Musset." In: ''Dante and the French Romantics.'' Genève: Librairie Droz, pp. 209–217. * Pollock, Walter Herries (1879)
"Alfred de Musset."
In: ''Lectures on French Poets.'' London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., pp. 43–96. * Rees, Margaret A. (1963). "Imagery in the Plays of Alfred de Musset," ''The French Review,'' Vol. XXXVI, No. 3, pp. 245–254. * Sainte-Beuve, C.A. (1891)
"Alfred de Musset."
In: ''Portraits of Men.'' London: David Scott, pp. 23–35. * Stothert, James (1878)
"Alfred de Musset,"
''The Gentleman's Magazine,'' Vol. CCXLIII, pp. 215–234. * Thomas, Merlin (1985). "Alfred de Musset: Don Juan on the Boulevard de Gand." In: ''Myths and its Making in the French Theatre.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 158–165. * Trent, William P. (1899)
"Tennyson and Musset Once More."
In: ''The Authority of Criticism.'' New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, pp. 269–291. * Wright, Rachel L. (1992). "Male Reflectors in the Drama of Alfred de Musset," ''The French Review,'' Vol. LXV, No. 3, pp. 393–401.
External links
* * * * Sand and Musset at the Theater to Paris"Sand et Musset, les Amants du siècle"
* The New Student's Reference Work/Musset, Alfred de *
'Lorenzaccio' – at Athena
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