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In 1835, he produced a drama titled Chatterton, based on the life of Thomas Chatterton, and in which Marie Dorval starred as Kitty Bell.

Chatterton is considered to be one of the best of the French romantic dramas and is still performed regularly.

The story of Chatterton had inspired one of the three episodes of Vigny's luminous philosophical novel Stello ( 1832 ), in which Vigny examines the relation of poetry to society and concludes that the poet, doomed to be regarded with suspicion in every social order, must remain somewhat aloof and apart from the social order.

Servitude et grandeur militaires ( 1835 ) was a similar tripartite meditation on the condition of the soldier.