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Victor-Marie Hugo, in full Victor-Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 - 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist who was the most important of the French Romantic writers. Though regarded in France as one of that country's greatest poets, he is better known abroad for such novels as Notre-Dame de Paris (1831) and Les Misérables (1862).
In France, Hugo's literary fame comes first from his poetry but also rests upon his novels and his dramatic achievements. Among many volumes of poetry, Les Contemplations and La Légende des siècles stand particularly high in critical esteem, and Hugo is sometimes identified as the greatest French poet. Outside France, his best-known works are the novels Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris (also known in English as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame).
Though a committed royalist when he was young, Hugo's views changed as the decades passed; he became a passionate supporter of republicanism, and his work touches upon most of the political and social issues and artistic trends of his time. He is buried in the Panthéon.
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In France, Hugo's literary fame comes first from his poetry but also rests upon his novels and his dramatic achievements. Among many volumes of poetry, Les Contemplations and La Légende des siècles stand particularly high in critical esteem, and Hugo is sometimes identified as the greatest French poet. Outside France, his best-known works are the novels Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris (also known in English as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame).
Though a committed royalist when he was young, Hugo's views changed as the decades passed; he became a passionate supporter of republicanism, and his work touches upon most of the political and social issues and artistic trends of his time. He is buried in the Panthéon.
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781477660843 |
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Publisher: | CreateSpace Publishing |
Publication date: | 06/15/2012 |
Pages: | 612 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.24(d) |
About the Author
"If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away," the larger-than-life Victor Hugo once confessed. Indeed, this 19th-century French author's books — from the epic drama Les Misérables to the classic unrequited love story The Hunchback of Notre Dame — have spanned the ages, their themes of morality and redemption as applicable to our times as to his.
Date of Birth:
February 26, 1802Date of Death:
May 22, 1885Place of Birth:
Besançon, FrancePlace of Death:
Paris, FranceEducation:
Pension Cordier, Paris, 1815-18Table of Contents
The First Day--The Ambush | ||
I. | "Security" | 9 |
II. | Paris sleeps--the Bell rings | 13 |
III. | What had happened during the Night | 15 |
IV. | Other Doings of the Night | 31 |
V. | The Darkness of the Crime | 33 |
VI. | "Placards" | 35 |
VII. | No. 70, Rue Blanche | 39 |
VIII. | "Violation of the Chamber" | 46 |
IX. | An End worse than Death | 56 |
X. | The Black Door | 53 |
XI. | The High Court of Justice | 60 |
II. | The Mairie of the Tenth Arrondissement | 72 |
XIII. | Louis Bonaparte's Side-face | 93 |
XIV. | The D'Orsay Barracks | 95 |
XV. | Mazas | 105 |
XVI. | The Episode of the Boulevard St. Martin | 110 |
XVII. | The Rebound of the 24th June, 1848, on the 2d December 1851 | 120 |
XVIII. | The Representatives hunted down | 126 |
XIX. | One Foot in the Tomb | 134 |
XX. | The Burial of a Great Anniversary | 143 |
The Second Day--The Struggle | ||
I. | They come to Arrest me | 145 |
II. | From the Bastille to the Rue de Cotte | 152 |
III. | The St. Antoine Barricade | 156 |
IV. | The Workmen's Societies ask us for the Order to fight | 171 |
V. | Baudin's Corpse | 176 |
VI. | The Decrees of the Representatives who remained Free | 181 |
VII. | The Archbishop | 197 |
VIII. | Mount Valerien | 203 |
IX. | The Lightning begins to flash among the People | 207 |
X. | What Fleury went to do at Mazas | 213 |
XI. | The End of the Second Day | 219 |
The Third Day--The Massacre | ||
I. | Those who sleep and He who does not sleep | 223 |
II. | The Proceedings of the Committee | 225 |
III. | Inside the Elysee | 233 |
IV. | Bonaparte's Familiar Spirits | 237 |
V. | A Wavering Ally | 242 |
VI. | Denis Dussoubs | 244 |
VII. | Items and Interviews | 245 |
VIII. | The Situation | 250 |
IX. | The Porte Saint Martin | 256 |
X. | My Visit to the Barricades | 258 |
XI. | The Barricade of the Rue Meslay | 262 |
XII. | The Barricade of the Mairie of the Fifth Arrondissement | 266 |
XIII. | The Barricade of the Rue Thevenot | 268 |
XIV. | Ossian and Scipio | 272 |
XV. | The Question presents itself | 279 |
XVI. | The Massacre | 284 |
XVII. | The Appointment made with the Workmen's Societies | 292 |
XVIII. | The Verification of Moral Laws | 297 |
The Fourth Day--The Victory | ||
I. | What happened during the Night--the Rue Tiquetonne | 301 |
II. | What happened during the Night--the Market Quarter | 304 |
III. | What happened during the Night--the Petit Carreau | 317 |
IV. | What was done during the Night--the Passage du Saumon | 329 |
V. | Other Deeds of Darkness | 336 |
VI. | The Consultative Committee | 343 |
VII. | The Other List | 349 |
VIII. | David d'Angers | 352 |
IX. | Our Last Meeting | 354 |
X. | Duty can have two Aspects | 358 |
XI. | The Combat finished, the Ordeal begins | 366 |
XII. | The Exiled | 368 |
XIII. | The Military Commissions and the mixed Commissions | 382 |
XIV. | A Religious Incident | 386 |
XV. | How they came out of Ham | 386 |
XVI. | A Retrospect | 396 |
XVII. | Conduct of the Left | 397 |
XVIII. | A Page written at Brussels | 406 |
XIX. | The Infallible Benediction | 410 |
Conclusion--The Fall | ||
Chap. I.411 | ||
Chap. II.413 | ||
Chap. III.415 | ||
Chap. IV.417 | ||
Chap. V.418 | ||
Chap. VI.420 | ||
Chap. VII.422 | ||
Chap. VIII.425 | ||
Chap. IX.427 | ||
Chap. X.428 |
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