Alfred de musset biography backgrounds

ALFRED DE MUSSET (1810-1857), poet, play-writer, and novelist, was born on the 11th December 1810 in a house in the middle of old Paris, near the Hôtel Cluny.

Alfred de musset biography backgrounds

His father, Victor de Musset, who in the course of his life held several ministerial posts of importance, traced his descent back as far as 1140. In Alfred’s childhood there were various things which fostered his imaginative power.

He and his brother Paul, who afterwards wrote a biography of Alfred, delighted in reading old romances together, and in assuming the characters of the heroes of these romances. But it was not until about 1826 that Musset gave any definite sign of the mental force which afterwards distinguished him.

In the summer of 1827 he all but won a prix d’honneur by an essay on "The origin of our feelings," and in 1828, when Scribe, Mélesville, and the elder Brazier were in the habit of coming the Madame de Musset’s house at Auteuil, where drawing-room plays and charades