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Love-Letters to Victor Hugo: Works Of Hugo

This book compiles a selection of personal correspondences and essays dedicated to the renowned French literary figure Victor Hugo, showcasing the admiration and engagement of his contemporaries with his work. more

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Juliette Drouet
Juliette Drouet

Juliette Drouet, a renowned French actress, was born on April 10, 1806, and passed away on May 11, 1883. She is celebrated for her exceptional performances in the 19th-century French theater and was a star of Parisian stages. more

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“We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now and then! Then was the old world. Stage-coaches, more or less swift, riding-horses, pack-horses, highwaymen, knights in armor, Norman invaders, Roman legions, Druids, Ancient Britons painted blue, and so forth -- all these belong to the old period. But your railroad starts the new era, and we of a certain age belong to the new time and the old one. We who lived before railways, and survive out of the ancient world, are like Father Noah and his family out of the Ark.”