SERIES. Throughout the summer, the JDD explores the memory of a writer through an emblematic place of his work. This week we return to the steps of Victor Hugo in Waterloo, where he put an end to his masterpiece, Les Misérables.
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Hugo casts the six characters of this heroic fresco into the storm of 1793. Republicans or royalists, without culottes or vendean peasant, all struggle against the spell. Theatrical strokes, humorous traits, sparkling verb, acts of love and nobility: the revolutionary novel of the great Hugolian gesture unfolds on stage as a live slideshow.
SERIES. Throughout the summer, the JDD explores the memory of a writer through an emblematic place of his work. This week we return to the steps of Victor Hugo in Waterloo, where he put an end to his masterpiece, Les Misérables.