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CDV: French author VICTOR HUGO:
$45.07

A carte-de-visite portrait of the novelist Victor Hugo (1802-1885).

A staunch Republican, Hugo was forced to flee Paris when Napoleon III seized power and was declared Emperor in 1851. He went into exile first in Brussels, then in Jersey, and finally in Guernsey. The Emperor granted an amnesty to all political exiles in 1859, but Hugo chose to ignore the offer. His most famous work Les Misérables appeared in 1864, an epic story of social injustice which divided critics but was a huge popular success. He returned to France in 1870 on the declaration of the Third Republic, witnessed the Siege of Paris, but escaped to Brussels during the Paris Commune, until he was expelled from there for harbouring political radicals, at which point he went to Luxembourg. On his return to Paris in 1876 he was a elected a Senator. He died in Paris on 22 May 1885. He was given a state funeral befitting a hero, which two million people attended, and was buried in the Panthéon.

Photographed by Bertall of Paris.

Condition: please see scans. The print presents a few faint marks in the area of the background but is otherwise in excellent condition. The mount has a nick in its left-hand edge and presents some faint yellowing verso but is clean and firm, with crisp edges and sharp corners.

Dimensions: the dimensions of a standard carte-de-visite are approximately 4.1\" by 2.5\" (10.5 cm by 6.3 cm).

All photographs are securely packaged using recycled cardboard.
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