Claude Gueux

by Victor Hugo

Overview

Claude Gueux de Victor Hugo, ou un beau plaidoyer contre la peine de mort.

Victor Hugo utilise l'histoire véridique de Claude Gueux pour argumenter contre la peine de mort. La réflexion de Victor Hugo porte sur les raisons qui poussent un homme à commettre un crime; les racines de ce mal, il les remarque avant tout dans la pauvreté et l'injustice sociale.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9782335002645
Publisher:	Ligaran
Publication date:	01/30/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	37
File size:	136 KB
Language:	French

About the Author

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) was an internationally renowned novelist, playwright and poet known for his political activism and human rights advocacy. "If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away," the larger–than–life Victor Hugo once confessed. Indeed, this 19th–century French author's books – from the epic drama Les Misérables to the classic unrequited love story The Hunchback of Notre Dame – have spanned the ages, their themes of morality and redemption as applicable to our times as to his.

Date of Birth:

February 26, 1802

Date of Death:

May 22, 1885

Place of Birth:

Besançon, France

Place of Death:

Paris, France

Education:

Pension Cordier, Paris, 1815-18