Born: 11 December 1810 · Died: 2 May 1857 · Age at death: 46
How old was Alfred de Musset when he died?
Alfred de Musset died aged 46. He was born on 11 December 1810 and died on 2 May 1857.
Romantic French poet and author of acclaimed plays and novels
Did you know?He had a notoriously intense and turbulent love affair with the celebrated female writer George Sand.
Quick facts
Date of birth11 December 1810
Date of death2 May 1857
Age at death46
Cause of deathSyphilis
NationalityFrench
BirthplaceParis, France
Occupationwriter, poet, playwright
Editor's Take:
Alfred de Musset was the wounded heart of French Romanticism. He was famous at 20 for witty, daring verse. His love affair with George Sand in Venice ended in illness and heartbreak, and it filled his best writing. His plays mix comedy and despair with modern lightness. They were long thought unstageable and are now classics of the Comédie-Française. Drink and ill health cut his creative life short. He died at 46.
Key Milestones
1830: Publishes his first poems
1834: Publishes Lorenzaccio
1836: Publishes Confession of a Child of the Century
1852: Elected to the Académie française
Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay (French:; 11 December 1810 – 2 May 1857) was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist. Along with his poetry, he is known for writing the autobiographical novel La Confession d'un enfant du siècle (The Confession of a Child of the Century).
Alfred de Musset's birthday is December 11. He was born on December 11, 1810 in Paris, France.
How old was Alfred de Musset when he died?
Alfred de Musset died on May 2, 1857, aged 46.
Who shares a birthday with Alfred de Musset?
Famous people who share Alfred de Musset's December 11 birthday include Naguib Mahfouz, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Hector Berlioz, Robert Koch and Max Born.
