HUGO Victor [Besançon, 1802 - Paris, 1885],... - Lot 29 - Oger - Blanchet

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HUGO Victor [Besançon, 1802 - Paris, 1885],... - Lot 29 - Oger - Blanchet
HUGO Victor [Besançon, 1802 - Paris, 1885], French poet and writer. Set of correspondences: 6 autograph letters signed. Autograph letter signed addressed to the publisher Mame. " This Wednesday evening " [1830]; 1 page in-8°. "I beg Mr. Mame to have the goodness to let me know tomorrow morning by a note if the shipments of copies have been made to the newspapers. I have already received several complaints and they must not be displeased. It is therefore urgent that Hernani be sent to them promptly. Here is, I believe, to which newspapers especially it is important to deposit the work: All the political papers, including of course the Globe, the Temps and the National. Then: the Figaro, the Sylphe (pink newspaper), the Courrier des Théâtres, the Revue de Paris, the Mercure, etc. From your perfectly devoted Vor H. " Autograph letter signed. 7 September 1850; 3 1/2 pages in-4°. "Your letter, Sir and honorable colleague has touched me as if I had felt the squeeze of your hand. I have hardly left Paris, Mr. Louis ... had me close by, every eight days he burns my larynx, and although reactionary in white (or black, as you will like the shade Montalembert), he does his best very..... so that I can speak in November. I am wrong to say Montalembert shade, because, under the pretext of curing my larynx a true Jesuit would wring my neck. You are right, the winter will be hard, all these people there are enraged, mad or blind. They take the century and the people backwards and their brain is as they would like the people and the century to be. One of these days, the spirit of the age will rise up, hit them with a backhand, and crush them, wanting only to blow them away. This is the luck of the dwarves who take on the giants. May God intervene in time and save us! If I had really left Paris, I certainly could not have resisted your kind and gracious offer and you would have seen me in the garden where you dream of the future and where you find wisdom. Your hospitality resembles your spirit; it is gentle and generous. You will say to me: what do you know? I feel it, which is better than knowing it. I withdraw this word better, because to know your hospitality is to have lived near you under your roof at your home, and nothing compensates for that. So pity me, my dear colleague, for not having been able to be your guest, and console me, on November 11, by becoming my neighbor again. I shake your hand ex imo Victor Hugo." Autograph letter signed "Victor Hugo," addressed to M. Savatier-Laroche. Paris, September 18 [1851]; 1 page in-12, envelope enclosed. "Your good words, dear and honorable colleague, go to our hearts. My wife and my son are very touched. I am writing you these few words in haste, for you see that for me there is no rest, and that the struggle does not cease during the vacations. This is what prevents me from accepting your kind and cordial invitation. What a powerful happiness it would be for me to go and shake your hand! I have to give it up this year. Here are my two sons in prison. But they are not concerned, it is me that they aim at. No matter. God, the people and the republic will prevail. Victor Hugo." Autograph letter signed "V.H.", addressed to Jules Janin. Hauteville House, May 16 [1858]; 2 pages in-8 on linen paper. "I greet you and I love you. I send you, poet, in exchange for your book, under the rays of my sky and under the breaths of my ocean, and I really don't know if I am still in need of breaths or rays. Yes, for these are truly inspired and lovely pages. You are still the magician; nothing is impossible for you; you have made a brilliant book about an unhappy man and a valiant book about a cowardly man. I do not like Ovid, but I like Jules Janin; you have everything of his poetry and he has nothing of your bravery. In short, you honor the letters, and I thank you for it. If there is still an academy, you must be in it. You are, aren't you? Unless there are no more academies. But the great, the true, the only academy, the French language, that one is immortal, that one is eternal, and you are in it and you were in it yesterday, and you will be in it tomorrow. You are installed between Diderot and Beaumarchais, the place is triumphant and no one will succeed you. The absent one thanks you for pronouncing his name once in a while. Ex imo V.H. " Autograph letter signed "Victor Hugo", addressed to M. Savatier-Laroche. Hauteville House, January 16, 1873; 1 page in-8, stamped envelope from Guernsey enclosed. Extraordinary letter from exile: "Your memory touches me deeply. Yes, I believe that what I am doing is right. I represent the calm protest of the truth against the immense lie, flagrant and reigning
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