WorkAlfred de Vigny
Alfred de Vigny (1797–1863)
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Documented 1839
Manuscripts
Selected engagements, in chronological order.
Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this work is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →
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.
“The works of M. de Vigny having come in my way I have read quite through this thick volume”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · later pencil addition, black: Sept. 1839
'I have read quite through this thick volume' is an explicit first-person reading statement with a dated pencil addition.
“The first portion of this volume, Servitude et Grandeurs Militaires, contains an account of the way in which he received his false tendency”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · Sept. 1839
Continuation of the same journal entry established as 'I have read quite through this thick volume' (de Vigny).
“La canne au Jonc the noblest. [...] In la canne au Jonc Collingwood, who embodies the high feeling of duty is taken too raw out of a book.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Notes on Balzac, George Sand, De Vigny, and Béranger." Houghton Library, Harvard University.