HUGO Victor [Besançon, 1802 - Paris, 1885], French poet and - Lot 32

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HUGO Victor [Besançon, 1802 - Paris, 1885], French poet and - Lot 32
HUGO Victor [Besançon, 1802 - Paris, 1885], French poet and writer. Important file: Autograph letter signed "Victor Hugo" [to Edmond Texier, du Siècle]. Hauteville House, March 25; 2 pages in-8° on blue paper. Very beautiful letter about his feelings in exile: "This morning while reading the Siècle where you speak of my book with so much elevation and in such a beautiful style, it seemed to me that I was reading a letter from you. This letter, sent to two addresses, written by you to the public with your spirit and to me with all your heart, I was reading it full of emotion. I was sitting on the point of a high sea ridge called Fermain-bay, I had before me this vast horizon of the wind where it seems by memory that one sees floating all his destiny. There were already flowers open in the lawn and birds in love in the hedge, an intermittence of sun and azure lighted gently my reading, I thought of my friends of France, of you, dear and noble spirit, of our meeting in Brussels, of the indefinite absence, to this solitude and to this silence where I am locked up. Was I sad? No. How can one be sad when one is loved. And at times I feel a little loved. A sympathy like yours, so eloquently and cordially expressed, stirs up what is proudest and sweetest in a solitary soul. I felt penetrated. The consciences, the probities, the valour, the values, I felt them represented by you near me. It seemed to me that your friendship spoke to my ear. Autograph piece signed "Victor Hugo" December 1, 1874; 1 page in-8° oblong. "I have received from MM. Hébert et Cie, publishers, [] the sum of twenty-two thousand six hundred and sixty-six francs 70 [] in execution of our treaty dated this day December 1, 1874." Letter signed "de Chilly", from the Théatre de l'Odéon to V. Hugo. Paris, September 23, 1871. Relating to having Ruy-Blas played at the Odeon. Various papers with handwritten annotations of V. Hugo. Receipts and expenses of the Théâtre de l'Odéon for Ruy-Blas (1872). Folder annotated by Victor Hugo: " 1867-1868 Hernani - Ruyblas Letters from P. Meurice and Aug. Vacquerie". With inside, two autograph letters signed to Victor Hugo: Paul de Saint Victor (1868) and a letter signed Fechter, relating to Ruy-Blas. Photograph. Business card format. Photograph of Etienne Carjat. Photograph. 16,4 x 10,8 cm. Photograph by Nadar. Photograph. 21,3 x 12,8 cm. Photograph of the Lopez studio. Photograph. 23 x 18.6 cm. Photograph of Goupil et Cie from the Galerie Contemporaine. Envelope addressed to M. Laroche with handwritten countersignature "Victor Hugo". 1850. One joined documentation on V. Hugo.
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