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Victor Hugo's Message to His People Author(s): A. B. Cooke Reviewed work(s): Source: The Sewanee Review, Vol. 10, No. 2 (Apr., 1902), pp. 129-133 Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27530479 . Accessed: 03/01/2013 22:29

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THE

SEWANEE

Vol. X.] APRIL,

REVIEW.

1902. [No. 2.

VICTOR

One

HUGO'S

MESSAGE

TO HIS

PEOPLE.

years ago, on the 26th of February, 1802, the century was not yet two years old, there came into when town of Besan?on a child who the world in the old French in the due course of days was christened Victor Marie Hugo. For twelve years and The child had fallen upon great times. a huge caldron, like more France had been seething and the hundred struggle age of a long past. The overtaxed, ignorant priest-ridden, over his hoe, for centuries been bending seething was stained with in one mighty tion trying blood. It was the throes from of a na the bond to break

and demanded his rights submissiveness, The yoke of the Church galled him. not paralleled in history. was banished. The weight He cast it off, and the priesthood With

who had peasant, had risen from his a vehemence with

too hard upon his stooping shoulders. of...