Location: Cimetière de Montmartre, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Cause of death: Cancer - Stomach
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French poet and early leader of French Romanticism. He also produced novels, plays, and translations of Shakespeare. As an army officer with conservative and royalist views, Vigny differed sharply from most other French Romantics.
His first collection of poetry, Poèmes antiques et modernes, was published in January 1826 and three months later he published, Cinq-Mars, the first important historical novel in French. With the success of these two volumes, Vigny seemed to be the rising star of the Romantic movement, though one of Vigny's best friends, Victor Hugo, soon usurped that role. In 1835 Vigny produced a drama titled Chatterton, based on the life of Thomas Chatterton, which is considered to be one of the best of the French romantic dramas and is still performed regularly. In 1845, after several unsuccessful attempts to be elected, Vigny became a member of the Académie française.
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