Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

WorkAlfred de Vigny

Cinq-Mars

Cinq-Mars, ou une Conjuration sous Louis XIII

Alfred de Vigny (1797–1863)

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Documented 1839

Manuscripts

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Confirmed reading

Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had this work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.

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  • 1839Cinq-MarsAttested

    “Cinq-Mars is a romance in the style of Walter Scott. It is well brought out”

    Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · Sept. 1839

    Same continuing journal discussion of the de Vigny volume she read through.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850
1839—

Notes on Balzac, George Sand, De Vigny, and Béranger

p35–p36
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“Cinq-Mars is a romance in the style of Walter Scott.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Notes on Balzac, George Sand, De Vigny, and Béranger." Houghton Library, Harvard University.