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What illness caused Alfred de Vigny’s death in 1863?
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Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny
Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832
Alfred de Vigny died of stomach cancer on September 17, 1863, after a period of significant suffering.12