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The life of a devotee is a crusade of which the heart is the Holy Land.
Alfred de Musset
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Alfred de Musset
Age: 46 †
Born: 1810
Born: December 11
Died: 1857
Died: May 2
Chess Composer
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Paris
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Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay
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Louis Charles Alfred Musset
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