Victor Hugo by André Gill, The Red Moon, March 8, 1877

André Gill dedicates a double page of the newspaper to illustrate the last sentence of the message (Acts III and words, “From Exile”), addressed by Victor Hugo, February 26th, 1877, to the committee of organization of the Circle of the schools: ”My dear young fellow, I agree with you. Your foundation is excellent. Fraternity in youth, it is a force both large and soft. This force, you will get it. The clarity of consciousness is generous in your age. You will be a coalition of human hearts and minds of the mighty, against despotism and falsehood, freedom and light. You will continue and you will complete the great work of our ancestors human issue. Courage! Be the servants and slaves of the law of duty. Your friend, Victor Hugo. ” 


Victor Hugo by Amand Vache

This Caricature by Amand Vache is reminiscent of some of the photographs of the writer, sitting in a chair near a table on which are arranged books, including those taken by Nadar or Walery. Note Amand Vache has the left lapel of Victor Hugo the rosette of an officer of the Legion of Honor

So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation, which, in the face of civilisation, artificially creates hells on earth, and complicates a destiny that is divine, with human fatality; so long as the three problems of the age—the degradation of man by poverty, the ruin of woman by starvation, and the dwarfing of childhood by physical and spiritual night—are not solved; so long as, in certain regions, social asphyxia shall be possible; in other words, and from a yet more extended point of view, so long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless.

-Victor Hugo, Hauteville House, 1862

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Victor Hugo

Ma Destinee (My Destiny), 1857

oil on canvas

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Victor Hugo’s housse , Guernesey - Jeudi 2 Mai 2o13

« Faire rire, c’est faire oublier. Quel bienfaiteur sur la terre, qu’un distributeur d’oubli » 

extrait de L’homme qui rit - Victor Hugo

Museum-man or The Garden of Beasts by Faustin

On 13 March 1871 Hugo wrote in his book, “Seven o’clock, Charles died […]. Mr. Porte told me that Charles, who took a cab to come to Lanta, had ordered the driver to go first at the Café de Bordeaux. Arrived at the Café de Bordeaux, the driver opened the door he found Charles dead. Charles was struck by apoplexy. Some ship had broken. It was bathed in blood. The blood coming from his nose and mouth. A doctor was called found death. ” Charles is buried five days later, at the Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris, then begins the insurrection of the Commune.


More of an allegory than a caricature, this drawing is the representation of Victor Hugo in the cedar of Lebanon, planted in the Jardin des Plantes in 1734, illustrates the drama of Victor Hugo who mourns the death of his son. 
The three lines that serve legend, are extracted from the punishment (Book V, “The authority is sacred,” XIII, “The Atonement”): 



”And he, oak living by insulting ax 


Startled as the spectrum gloomy revenge,


He looked down his arms around him. “

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Retold by Jimmy Symonds & illustrated by Tony Smith
EYEWITNESS CLASSICS
1997

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Illustrations de Les rues de Paris ancien et moderne
1843

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Victor Hugo, Le Rocher de L’Ermitage, 1855

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Notre Dame de Paris
Illustrations: C-P. Josso
Paris, Le Vasseur, 1948

Autographed note from Victor Hugo to the publisher of Hachette

“I pray MM. Hachette to kindly provide Mr. Paul Meurice, for Mr. Arthur Arnold , a copy of my complete works, on account of the volumes to which I am entitled. Victor Hugo. Paris. Aug. 28, 1875 “

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The Snake by Victor Hugo 1866

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Illustrations by Jean Alfred Gérard-Séguin

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Costume concepts for the La Esmeralda opera (Louise Bertin)
Artist: Louis Boulanger

 

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[Two HQ scans.]

Artist: Luc Olivier Merson