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When Les Consolations was published in 1830, it attracted attention primarily due to its stylistic choices. The work was noted for its deliberate flatness and apparent uncouthness, which stood in stark contrast to the grander, more elevated poetic manner favored by contemporaries such as Victor Hugo and Alfred de Vigny.1