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Victor Hugo

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Victor Hugo

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Auction Date:2011 Sep 14 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Important French writer, artist, and statesman (1802–1885) best known for such canonical novels as Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris (aka The Hunchback of Notre Dame). Much of his literary output was devoted to political and social issues, and in the 1840s he became actively involved in the French government as a legislator and staunch activist on behalf of the Republican cause. In 1851 the controversy surrounding his inflammatory writings denouncing Louis-Napoléon forced him into a two-decade exile, during which his productive creative pace barely slackened. ALS in French, one page, 5.25 x 8, October 25, [1868]. Letter to a friend, written from his famous home, Hauteville House. In full (translated): “I believe you may have read the newspaper which would explain to you my absence from Gernesey and therefore my long silence. I have just arrived and rush to answer you. I very much regret not to have received you friend at Hauteville House. I always remember your gracious visit eleven years ago. When will you repeat it? I shake your hands most cordially.” Intersecting folds, toning and soiling, mounting remnants to reverse of second integral page, and upper portion of first page affixed to second page, otherwise very good condition.