Victor Hugo

Environmented in the slave insurrection of Santo Domingo at the end of the 18th century, the novel recounts the unexpected friendship between a young French officer and Bug-Jargal, a slave of noble bearing and heroic spirit.

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The first novel of the "sublime child": Hugo was only over twenty years old when he finished it, and Han of Iceland defends the thesis of the alliance of the king, the youth and the people in the face of the absolutism of evil, which is mainly due to people dying of hunger at the gates of the palaces. The action takes place in the 17th century.

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On the last day of a convicted man, a prisoner reflects on his life during the hours before his execution... It is up to the reader to accompany him in his memories and fears, to share with him all the stages that lead to the guillotine with Claude Gueux, we follow the path of prison to the pathicle of a good man victim of social injustice. Two touching novels about a practice still in force in the world and against which Hugo fought his whole life: the death penalty.

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Large-scale romantic and social novel

Marion, a famous Parisian courtesan, has left the capital two months ago, for greater despair of its lovers and fans, and has taken refuge in Blois. Pressed by Saverny, who has found her, she confesses that she has an appointment with a man named Didier; he does not know who she is, and she completely ignores his identity.

A romantic drama in which Victor Hugo strongly criticizes the monarchy and faces with audacity, the most absolute irrationality and savagery, reflected in the figure of King Francis I, to the sanity and hatred of his buffoon, Triboulet. Verdi Rigoletto's opera is based on this work.

Lucrecia Borgia wants to remove evil from her condition, and be recognized and loved by Gennaro, the son she had with her brother. During a dance in Venice, Gennaro courted a beautiful masked woman before discovering Lucrecia's face with horror.

Romantic prose drama, in three acts (or days) of Victor Hugo, whose first performance took place at the Porte- Saint- Martin Theatre on November 6, 1833.

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Ruy Blas, a young, poor and very moral plebey, becomes a servant of a powerful man who suffered an outrage because of the queen and has sworn to take revenge.

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Great social, political and sentimental fresco

Mess Lethierry owns La Durande, a steam stranded on a rock by the criminal machination of his captain, Mr. Clubin. Mad of anger at the idea that the revolutionary engine of his steam would definitely be lost, Lethierry promises to hand over his niece Deruchette to whoever recovers the shipwreck machine caught between the two rocks of the Douvres reef off the coast. from Guernsey. Gilliatt, a fisherman as sturdy as a dreamer, but especially in love with Deruchette, accepted the challenge. After many adventures, in particular his fight against the elements and octopus, Gilliatt is successful in his mission.

The man who laughs is the story of a child, Gwynplaine, mutilated in his early childhood to turn his face into the mask of laughter; that of his abandonment on the coast of Portland; that of his rescue and adoption by Ursus, philosopher and itinerant healer.

Reflection on the time of the Terror - one of the most horrible periods of the French Revolution - through the confrontation between its protagonists.

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