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Overview
The revolution of 1848 marked a watershed in the social and political opinions and ultimately in the course of the great writer's literary career. However, for Victor Hugo the course that would lead him from the right to the left in the Chamber of Deputies, unfolded gradually over the first two years of the upheaval.
Hugo's reputation as a critic already insured that his preventative arrest along with other dissenting parliamentarians. Hugo also futilely attempted to form a resistance committee and tried to rally popular support in Paris for a new round of barricades. These moments are the subject of his novel History of a Crime. By the time the great romantic had begun his exile he had turned one hundred and eighty degrees, from an adherent of the restored monarchy to a champion of a democratic and social republic. When his political activities forced him to flee Paris, he started writing less than 24 hours after he arrived in Brussels. In less than five months, he completed History of a Crime, which contains vicious attacks on Napoleon III. Belgium asked Hugo to leave because they were forced to maintain friendly relations with France. Hugo then went to the small island of Jersey not far from the French coast, but he would never make a real home
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9789355842015 |
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Publisher: | True Sign Publishing House Private Limited |
Publication date: | 10/19/2023 |
Pages: | 438 |
Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.97(d) |
About the Author
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 |