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"Romanticism is the star which weeps, the wind which cries out, the night which shivers, the flower which gives its scent, the bird which fliesIt is the infinite and the starry, the warmth, the broken, the sober, and yet at the same time the plain and the round, the diamond-shaped, the pyramidal, the vivid, the restrained, the embraced, the turbulent."--"Sur l'Abus qu'on fait des adjectifs" () by Alfred de Musset

Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay (11 December – 2 May ) was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist, best-known for Les Caprices de Marianne, an play which served as the basis for Jean Renoir's film, The Rules of the Game; and his series of poems Les Nuits.

The tale of his celebrated love affair with George Sand, which lasted from to , is told from his point of view in his autobiographical novel, Confession d'un enfant du siècle, and from her p