Le Dernier Jour d'un condamn�

by Victor Hugo

Overview

Victor Hugo rencontre plusieurs fois le spectacle de la guillotine et s'indigne de ce que la société se permet de faire de sang-froid ce qu'elle reproche à l'accusé d'avoir fait. C'est au lendemain d'une traversée de la place de l'Hôtel-de-Ville où le bourreau graissait la guillotine en prévision de l'exécution prévue le soir même que Victor Hugo se lance dans l'écriture du Dernier Jour d'un condamné qu'il achève très rapidement1. Le livre est édité en février 1829 par l'éditeur Charles Gosselin mais sans nom d'auteur.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781984113856
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	01/23/2018
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.27(d)
Language:	French

About the Author

Victor-Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 - 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights campaigner, and perhaps the most influential exponent of the Romantic movement in France.

In France, Hugo's literary reputation rests on his poetic and dramatic output. 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. In the English-speaking world his best-known works are often the novels Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris (sometimes translated into English as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame).

Though extremely conservative in his youth, Hugo moved to the political left 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.

Date of Birth:

February 26, 1802

Date of Death:

May 22, 1885

Place of Birth:

Besançon, France

Place of Death:

Paris, France

Education:

Pension Cordier, Paris, 1815-18