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in one poem for the preservation of his surviving children, his other son François-Victor died on 26 December 1873 after a long illness.
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ended his political career. Although he pleaded with
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101:Ce siècle est à la barre et je suis son témoin.
97:N'importe. Poursuivons. L'histoire en a besoin.
119:No matter. Let's continue. History needs this.
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89:Je sens l'ascension lugubre de la honte.
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16:Collection of poems by Victor Hugo
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111:Must I proceed? must I go on?
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134:Life events of the author
563:Les Rayons et les Ombres
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611:L'Art d'être grand-père
436:Angelo, Tyrant of Padua
777:The History of a Crime
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587:La Légende des siècles
539:Les Feuilles d'automne
176:Père Lachaise Cemetery
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761:William Shakespeare
716:Le Verso de la page
692:Les Années funestes
245:Quatre-Vingt-Treize
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345:The Man Who Laughs
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830:(daughter)
827:Adèle Hugo
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468:Torquemada
305:Bug-Jargal
233:Communists
208:Luxembourg
727:juvenilia
221:while at
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380:Cromwell
195:royalist
184:Brussels
171:Bordeaux
156:Bismarck
152:besieged
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