Alfred Victor, Comte de Vigny was a French poet and early French Romanticist. He also produced novels, plays, and translations of Shakespeare.
Portrait of Vigny, attributed to François Kinson
Alfred de Vigny, by Antoine Maurin, 1832.
Sketch of Alfred de Vigny, by Prosper Mérimée.
The Valley of Bones is the seventh novel in Anthony Powell's twelve-volume series A Dance to the Music of Time. Published in 1964, it is the first of the war trilogy.
Gosford Castle, the model for Castlemallock