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HUGO, Victor (1802-1885).
L.A.S. addressed to his friend Nathanaël Martin-Dupont (1834-1910), pastor in Jersey, then in Sainte-Foy and journalist. Hauteville House, March 20 [1862]. 2 pp. in-8. Address on verso of the second leaf. Tears and fragility.
Victor Hugo, heir of the ideas of the French Revolution.
Hugo thanks his correspondent for his "beautiful and noble pages" and would like to see him in Gernsey "[...] I would tell you my few dissidences and especially my sympathies and my adhesions. There is in you a tender and serious philosopher; and we would be almost, except for dogmatism, absolutely in agreement on the immense prayer, that is to say on God. I congratulate you twice, because you practice great ideas and because you ignore small hatreds. The Revue des 2 mondes was founded thirty years ago somewhat against me and has never ceased to fight the philosophical and literary movement, complementary to the French Revolution, which I initiated in this century. I am told, however, that for some years now, the hostility of this journal against me has diminished [...]". For 10 years he has been a stranger to the periodical press but will send the work of his correspondent to Vacquerie, etc.
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HUGO, Victor. L.A.S., to his "dear philosopher and dear apostle", the pastor Nathanaël Martin-Dupont (1834-1910). Hauteville House, July 30 [s.d.]. 1 p. in-8. Missing at the foot with damage to the text, tears.
Seduced by a letter of his correspondent, he invites him to come and talk, at Hauteville House, before his departure for Europe. "Your brain is worked by the future. You are one of those whom progress calls today and will crown tomorrow. I have a thousand things to tell you. To write them to you is impossible. You know this interior overflow of the thought, which needs the presence and the word [...]". He will reread two articles, etc.
Letters published in Victor Hugo, anecdotique, by N. Martin-Dupond, Stock, 1904, volume II, p. 210 and 214.
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