Editing Alfred de Musset (section)

==Reception==
[[File:Henri Gervex "Rolla".jpg|thumb|''Rolla'' by [[Henri Gervex]], 1878]]{{Unreferenced section|date=December 2024}}
The French poet [[Arthur Rimbaud]] was highly critical of Musset's work. Rimbaud wrote in his ''Letters of a Seer'' (''Lettres du Voyant'') that Musset did not accomplish anything because he "closed his eyes" before the visions (letter to Paul Demeny, May 1871).

Director [[Jean Renoir]]'s ''[[The Rules of the Game|La règle du jeu]]'' (''The Rules of the Game'') was inspired by Musset's play ''[[The Moods of Marianne|Les Caprices de Marianne]]''.

[[Henri Gervex]]'s 1878 painting ''Rolla'' was based on a poem by De Musset. It was rejected by the jury of the [[Salon de Paris]] for immorality, since it features suggestive metaphors in a scene from the poem, with a naked prostitute shown after having sex with her client, but the controversy helped Gervex's career.

Jean Anouilh's ''Eurydice'' (1941) employs an intertextually salient quote of Musset's play ''On ne badine pas avec l'amour'' II.5 (1834), "The Tirade of Perdican" — Vincent and Eurydice's Mother rekindle the glorious days of their earlier acting careers and their own amours, when once his on-stage performance of Perdican's tirade instigated their first dressing-room love scene.