If love is a play, this play, as old as the world, fiasco or not, it is, all in all, the least bad thing that has so far been found. The roles are trite, I admit, but if the play had no value the whole universe wouldn’t know it by heart

His mother was similarly accompliAlfred de Mussetd and her role as a society hostess - for example her drawing-room parties luncheons and dinners held in the Musset residence - left a lasting impression on young Alfred. By the time he reached the age of 20 his rising literary fame was already accompanied by a sulphurous reputation fed by his dandy side. Biography
Musset was born on 11 December 1810 in Paris.

Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay (French pronunciation: ​[al. my'sɛ] ; 11 December 1810 – 2 May 1857) was a French dramatist poet and novelist. də.