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  • Victor Hugo
    In Victor Hugo: Last years (1870–85) of Victor Hugo

    …around him, the poet of L’Année terrible (1872), in which he recounted the siege of Paris during the “terrible year” of 1870, had become a national hero and a living symbol of republicanism in France. In 1878 Hugo was stricken by cerebral congestion, but he lived on for some years…

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