Alfred de Vigny

Alfred de Vigny was born in Loches on 27 March 1797, into a noble family with a military tradition. He entered the King's Household in 1814, became a captain in 1823 and left the army in 1827. He married an Englishwoman, Lydia Bunbury, and was involved for a few years with the actress Marie Dorval. Elected to the Académie française in 1845, after several failures, he divided his last years between Paris and his estate of Maine-Giraud, near Angoulême, and died in Paris on 17 September 1863.

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