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.
“Of the three stories which adorn this part of the book, Le Cachet Rouge is the loveliest”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · Sept. 1839
Same continuing journal discussion of the volume she stated she read through.
“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).
“Of the three stories which adorn this part of the book, Le cachet Rouge is the loveliest. [...] Never was any thing more sweetly naive than parts of le Cachet Rouge.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Notes on Balzac, George Sand, De Vigny, and Béranger." Houghton Library, Harvard University.