Les contemplations

by Victor Hugo

Overview

Pure Innocence! Vertu sainte!
O les deux sommets d'ici-bas!
Où croissent, sans ombre et sans crainte,
Les deux palmes des deux combats!

Palme du combat Ignorance!
Palme du combat Vérité!
L'âme, à travers sa transparence,
Voit trembler leur double clarté.

Innocence! Vertu! sublimes
Même pour l'oeil mort du méchant!
On voit dans l'azur ces deux cimes,
L'une au levant, l'autre au couchant.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788822854339
Publisher:	PubMe
Publication date:	10/10/2016
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
File size:	694 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