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Photographic portrait, 1876Étienne Carjat · Public domain

Victor Hugo

Hugo places a defence of beauty beside the loss of Jean Valjean’s name in prison. Read the bishop’s reply and the narrator’s account in their separate scenes of usefulness and human dignity.

1802 AD – 1885 AD · 417 collected ↗