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What is "La Confession d'un enfant du siècle" (The Confession of a Child of the Century)?
A poem
A play
A novel
Musset's autobiography
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The Confession of a Child of the Century is a semi-autobiographical novel by French writer Alfred de Musset, first published in 1836. The novel tells the story of a young man named Octave, who is in love with a woman named Brigitte, but their affair is complicated by Octave's feelings of disillusionment and self-loathing.
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