![]() ![]() Incredibly ignorant the masterpieces of literature were then unknown to the The century, like the author, was young, and in some things both were "embellish" the austere cathedral with Gothic decorations of cardboard. Upon themselves to mutilate the sculpture work on the marvellous façade and to It opens in 1825, at Rheims, during the coronation ofĬHARLES X, with an amusing ~causerie~ on the manners and customs of theĬoronation ceremony was singularly spoiled by the pitiable taste of those who Let us pass the gallery rapidly in review. Hence we get a series of pictures of infinite The theatre, labour, struggles, disappointments, exile and triumphs. HUGO'S long and chequered life was filled with experiences of the most diverseĬharacter-literature and politics, the court and the street, parliament and Which only striking incidents and occurrences are brought out, and lengthy and It is less and it is more, or rather, it is better than these. Order, nor is it a continuous autobiography. This is not a diary of events arranged in chronological Impression they made upon the mind of the extraordinary man who recounts them Īnd of all the personages he brings before us he himself is assuredly not theīrushes of Rembrandts there are always two portraits, that of the model and ![]() As we follow the events set forth we get the XIX Century, is bound up in the life of a man, VICTOR HUGO. This volume of memoirs has a double character-historical DEBATES IN THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ON THE DAYS ![]()
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