Victor Hugo

Pierrot, qui bientt sera Bug-Jargal, un Noir, esclave d'un riche colon de Saint-Domingue, ose porter ses regards sur Marie, la fille de son maître, qui révèle le fait à son fiancé, Léopold d'Auverney. Pierrot se cache, mais veille sur Marie et la sauve alors qu'elle allait devenir la proie d'un crocodile. À PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR Victor Hugo est un poète, dramaturge, écrivain, romancier et dessinateur romantique français, né le 26 février...

"Peut-on imaginer un monde sans Jean Valjean, Cosette, Gavroche, Javert ou Fantine, à jamais vivants au Panthéon de l'esprit humain? En 1862, paraissent Les Misérables, qui désignent toutes les victimes d'un ordre social dont Victor Hugo condamne les injustices. Immense épopée populaire, le roman est emporé dans l'air de Paris et de ses bas-fonds, l'odeur des barricades et de la Révolution. Il deviendra l'une des oeuvres les plus lues dans...

First published in 1829 at the beginning of Victor Hugo's literary career, "The Last Day of a Condemned Man" is one of the author's first mature works of fiction. It recounts the thoughts of a condemned man as the day of his execution draws near. Inspired by the sight of an executioner preparing the guillotine for another scheduled public execution, Hugo quickly wrote this moving and eloquent work describing the condemned man's final thoughts as he...

Three hundred and forty-eight years, six months, and nineteen days ago to-day, the Parisians awoke to the sound of all the bells in the triple circuit of the city, the university, and the town ringing a full peal. The sixth of January 1482, is not, however, a day of which history has preserved the memory. There was nothing notable in the event, which thus set the bells and the bourgeois of Paris in a ferment from early morning. It was neither an assault...