Hebe of 1,063 tons was a new ship of the class of the same name which consisted of 38 guns, twenty six of which were 18-pounder long guns commanded by the Chevalier de Vigny (father of Alfred de Vigny) and had on board 360 men.
Alfred de Vigny was born in Loches (a town to which he never returned) into an aristocratic family.
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Prolonging successive leaves from the army, he settled in Paris with his young English bride, Lydia Bunbury, whom he married in Pau in 1825.
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Servitude et grandeur militaires (1835) was a similar tripartite meditation on the condition of the soldier.
Wayne Conner, « En marge des Proscrits : Vigny lecteur de Balzac », L'Année balzacienne, 1974, p.
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Her name has been popularized by various authors, especially by Alfred de Vigny in his novel Cinq Mars, by Victor Hugo in the drama Marion Delorme, and by Amilcare Ponchielli and Giovanni Bottesini in two operas of the same title.
The poems encountered some adverse criticism, but secured for their author the approbation and friendship of Alfred de Vigny and Jules Janin.