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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter vii '"that Which Brings Satisfaction To The Heart" Vvhen Victor Hugo grasped the full extent of the national disaster in August, 1870, he started immediately for Belgium. On the proclamation of the republic he proceeded to the frontier where a few official friends awaited him. The scene that took place on his arrival, though somewhat theatrical, was yet inspiring. The "sublime outlaw" asked for the bread and wine of France. After he had eaten and drunk he begged Juliette to preserve a fragment of the bread and buried his face in his hands with the gesture of one who is dazzled by too much light. Juliette relates that big tears flowed through his clenched fingers. The bystanders stood in silence, awed by his emotion. The poet and our heroine stayed with Paul Meurice at Avenue Frochot for a time, and then went to the Hotel du Pavillon de Rohan. Finally they settled, he in a small furnished apartment at Love Letters of Juliette Drouet 66, Rue de la Rochefoucauld, and she, close by in a fairly spacious entresol rented at fourteen hundred francs, at 55, Rue Pigalle. But hardly had they resumed the peaceful tenor of their ways when they were forced to uproot again. On the 8th of February, 1871, Victor Hugo was elected a member of the Assemblee Nationale, and as he could not bear to be parted any longer from his grandchildren, he removed his whole household to Bordeaux, including his son Charles, his mistress Juliette, and the little heroes of L'Art d'etre Grandpere. They started on the 13th of February and the poet took his seat on the 15th. On the 8th of March he felt it his duty to resign, on account of the refusal of his colleagues to allow Garibaldi to be naturalized a Frenchman. He was about to leave when a fresh sorrow struck him...
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- PublisherTheClassics.us
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1230217037
- ISBN 13 9781230217031
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages78
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