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Alfred de Vigny

1797 - 1863

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Alfred Victor, Comte de Vigny (French pronunciation: [alfʁɛd viktɔʁ kɔ̃t də viɲi]; 27 March 1797 – 17 September 1863) was a French poet and early French Romanticist. He also produced novels, plays, and translations of Shakespeare. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alfred de Vigny is the 1,049th most popular writer (down from 716th in 2019), the 1,219th most popular biography from France (down from 861st in 2019) and the 157th most popular French Writer.

Alfred de Vigny is most famous for his poem, "The Song of the Sword."

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Among writers, Alfred de Vigny ranks 1,049 out of 7,302. Before him are Persius, Bertran de Born, Mary Higgins Clark, James Hadley Chase, John Dryden, and Jacques Clément. After him are Marko Marulić, Johannes Tauler, Charles Nodier, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Ernst Toller, and Alfred Brehm.

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Among people born in 1797, Alfred de Vigny ranks 18. Before him are Charles Lyell, Maria Leopoldina of Austria, Ferdinand von Wrangel, Frederick Augustus II of Saxony, Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and Utagawa Kuniyoshi. After him are Princess Maria Antonia Koháry, Maria Isabel of Braganza, Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg, Wilhelm Beer, Carlo Blasis, and Carl Gustaf Mosander. Among people deceased in 1863, Alfred de Vigny ranks 10. Before him are Dost Mohammad Khan, Frederick VII of Denmark, William Makepeace Thackeray, Sa'id of Egypt, Horace Vernet, and Jakob Steiner. After him are Franz Xaver Gruber, Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel, Giovanni Battista Amici, Auguste Bravais, Archduke Maximilian of Austria-Este, and Solomon Northup.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alfred de Vigny ranks 1,219 out of 6,770. Before him are Florestan I, Prince of Monaco (1785), Alcide d'Orbigny (1802), Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy (1756), Albert Marquet (1875), Nicolas Chauvin (1790), and Jacques Clément (1567). After him are Jean-Claude Trichet (1942), Johannes Tauler (1300), Isabella of Valois (1389), Charles Nodier (1780), Jules de Polignac (1780), and Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737).

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