VIGNY, ALFRED-VICTOR, COMTE DE

(count of ) born March 27, 1797, Loches, Fr. died Sept. 17, 1863, Paris poet, dramatist, and novelist who was the most philosophical of the French Romantic writers. Additional reading There are few works on Vigny in English. Arnold Whitridge, Alfred de Vigny (1933, reprinted 1971); and James Doolittle, Alfred de Vigny (1967), are devoted entirely to his life and work. Three broader works set his writing in a larger context: David Owen Evans, Social Romanticism in France, 18301848 (1951, reprinted 1969); Robert T. Denomme, Nineteenth-Century French Romantic Poets (1969); and Lawrence M. Porter, The Renaissance of the Lyric in French Romanticism: Elegy, Pome, and Ode (1978). Major Works: Poetry. Pomes (1822), including La Fille de Jepht; loa, ou la soeur des anges (1824); Pomes antiques et modernes (1826), including loa, Le Dluge, La Neige, Mose, and Le Cor; Madame de Soubise and La Frgate La Srieuse' (included in the 1829 revised edition of Pomes); Paris (1831) and Les Amants de Montmorency (1832), both included in the 1837 revised edition of Pomes antiques et modernes; La Mort du loup (1843); La Maison du Berger (1844); Le Mont des Oliviers (1844); and La Colre de Samson (1864), all included in Les Destines (1864). Plays. La Marchale d'Ancre (1831); Quitte pour la peur (1833); Chatterton (1835). Novels. Cinq-Mars (1826; Cinq-Mars; or, A Conspiracy Under Louis XIII, 1847); Stello (1832); Daphn (1912, published posthumously). Other works. Servitude et grandeur militaires (1835; The Military Necessity, 1953), short stories; Le Journal d'un pote (1867).