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  • To Love Is to Act

    Les Misérables and Victor Hugo’s Vision for Leading Lives of Conscience

    “To love is to act”— “Aimer, c’est agir.” These words, which Victor Hugo wrote three days before he died, epitomize his life’s philosophy. His love of freedom, democracy, and all people—especially the poor and wretched—drove him not only to write his epic Les Misérables but also to follow his conscience. We have much to learn from Hugo, who battled for justice, lobbied against slavery and the ... Leer más

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  • Lettres inédites de Juliette Drouet à Victor Hugo

    Ces 105 lettres inédites de Juliette Drouet à Victor Hugo, récemment retrouvées dans les universités américaines de Yale, Harvard et Syracuse, et à la prestigieuse Pierpont Morgan Library, retracent plus de quarante ans d'une liaison passionnée, de 1835 à 1878, depuis la naissance d'Olympio jusqu’au dernier séjour des vieux amants à Guernesey. Elles témoignent des réelles qualités d’épistolière de ... Leer más

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  • A History of Silence

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  • The Novel of the Century

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  • French Literature

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  • A Natural History of Revolution

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    How did the French Revolutionaries explain, justify, and understand the extraordinary violence of their revolution? In debating this question, historians have looked to a variety of eighteenth-century sources, from Rousseau's writings to Old Regime protest tactics. A Natural History of Revolution suggests that it is perhaps on a different shelf of the Enlightenment library that we might find the ... Leer más

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  • Women and the Limits of Citizenship in the French Revolution

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