Augustin Thierry, François Guizot, Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis, and Benjamin Constant. He became a close friend of Victor Cousin, Marcellin de Fresne and Marquis Jean-Baptiste de Montgrand, who later translated into French Manzoni's Inni Sacri and The Betrothed. In 1806-1807, while at Auteuil, Manzoni published his first works,