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Paul de Musset
1804–1880
A 19th-century French man of letters, he is remembered both for his own fiction and for preserving the story of his brother Alfred de Musset. His work moves between family memoir, literary biography, and light imaginative writing.
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La Chèvre Jaune
by Paul de Musset
About the author
Born in Paris in 1804, Paul de Musset was a French writer from a literary family and the elder brother of Alfred de Musset. Modern library and reference records describe him as a novelist and man of letters, and they place his life entirely in Paris, where he also died in 1880.
Much of his lasting reputation comes from the way he shaped Alfred de Musset's legacy. After Alfred's death, Paul published Lui et Elle in 1859, a response to George Sand's Elle et Lui, and later wrote Biographie de Alfred de Musset, an important book for readers interested in the poet's life and work.
He also published works of his own beyond literary biography, including fiction that reached readers outside France, such as Mr. Wind and Madam Rain. Today, he is often introduced through his connection to Alfred, but his career shows a writer deeply involved in the literary world of 19th-century France.