Musset

American  

[my-sey] / müˈseɪ /

noun

1. (Louis Charles) Alfred de 1810–57, French poet, dramatist, and novelist.

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Musset British  

/ mysɛ /

noun

1. Alfred de (alfrɛd də). 1810–57, French romantic poet and dramatist: his works include the play Lorenzaccio (1834) and the lyrics Les Nuits (1835–37), tracing his love affair with George Sand

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Example Sentences

She has woven her own hair into a dried rose; the catalogue states that inspiration came from Sand’s rupture with Alfred de Musset, one of her infamous lovers, when they exchanged twists of curls.

From Economist

She stood there, “a nice little country girl in a little skirt,” she later recalled, reciting lines out of Alfred Musset’s play, “There’s No Trifling With Love.”

From Los Angeles Times

"We could have done like in Asia, one task per employee, which is faster, but we wanted to have a better quality product," said Diderot Musset, Sûrtab's production manager.

From Reuters

Or “Georgia Sand,” a typical exercise in rhymed name-dropping — about the romance between George Sand and Alfred de Musset, no less — that almost feels like a Porter parody?

From New York Times

Mr. Gaultier said backstage that his stint on the jury at this spring’s Cannes Film Festival introduced him to the movie of the French author Alfred de Musset’s “Confessions of a Child of the Century.”

From New York Times