Alfred de Vigny was one of the stars of Romanticism. By the time of his election to the Académie française in 1845, he had become somewhat marginalized in literary circles, as he defended the imperial régime. Nonetheless, in Stello (1832) and Chatterton (1835) he offered iconic figures of tormented, outcast writers who incarnated the next generation’s despair in a world devoted to merchandise and to industrialized literature formatted for bookstores and newspapers. Despite being a friend of Baudelaire’s, he does not seem to have been in contact with Nadar, who made him Number 15 in his Pantheon in a similar and highly meaningful pose: the same as Lamartine's.