Victor Hugo et Son Temps [Victor Hugo and His Times] (page 1/2)

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Vintage border of brambles and flowers

This half-border (bottom of the page and one side) features blackberry vines and flowers; the flowers might be intended to be blackberries but seem too large. [more...] [$]

Fantine [Les Misérables]

An engraving of a sketch of Fantine as a woman wearing a bonnet with a ribbon and looking away from us. [more...] [$]

Gavroche (Les Misérables)

The boy “Gavroche” from the book Les Misérables. A hundred years later the book was made into a musical that was very successful, of coure, and later a film, but at this time it was a book. [more...] [$]

Oak gallery at Hauteville House

La Galerie de chène de Hauteville-House. [more...] [$]

Victor Hugo at his writing desk

Victor Hugo in his study – A Sketch from Nature by M. Régamey. The picture shows the poet Victor Hugo standing at his writing desk, which the text implies was in his bedroom. The engraving is also signed, “Guillumy, Sc.” (for Sculpt, or engraved). The signature is hard to read and I could not find any [...] [more...] [$]