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Biography of Vigny, Comte de
Name: Vigny, Comte de
Birth Date: March 27, 1797
Death Date: September 17, 1863
Place of Birth: Loches, France
Nationality: French
Gender: Male
Occupations: poet
Vigny, Comte de
Alfred Victor, Comte de Vigny (1797-1863), was one of the finest poets of French romanticism. His lengthy journal reveals his sensitive and aristocratic nature.Alfred de Vigny was born at Loches on March 27, 1797, the son of Léon, Comte de Vigny, a 60-year-old wounded veteran of the Seven Years War, and Marie Jeanne Amélie de Baraudin. After early education at home under his mother's influence and later training at the Pension Hix, where he spent three miserable years, and at the Lycée Bonaparte, Vigny was admitted at the age of 17 into an aristocratic corps of the Gendarmes Rouges. From 1816 to 1823 he served as an officer in the Royal Guard, but he became disillusioned with military life and in 1827 obtained his discharge from the army.Marriage and Literary PursuitsMeanwhile, Vigny's love affair with Delphine Gay had been broken up by his mother and, in 1825, he had married …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…poet is always misunderstood, envied, and hated under whatever form of government he lives and that he should always maintain the thinker's "armed neutrality" and never form connections with those in power. Vigny's prose narrative Daphné on Julian the Apostate was published posthumously in 1912. The three tales of Servitude et grandeur militaires represent the sacrificial life of the soldier, whom Vigny sees, like the poet, as a martyr to an insentient society. Vigny's Journal d'un poète (1867 and later) shows at once his elegant and aristocratic qualities and his weaknesses; but above all it reveals the courage, sensitiveness, and moral elevation of the poet. Further Reading Two English translations of Vigny's Servitude et grandeur militaires are Humphrey Hare's The Military Necessity (1953) and Marguerite Barnett's The Military Condition (1964). A recent study of Vigny in English is James Doolittle, Alfred de Vigny (1967). Also useful is Arnold Whitridge, Alfred de Vigny (1933).
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