History Of A Crime: The Testimony Of An Eye-Witness - Vol IV

by Victor Hugo

Overview

Victor Hugo's documentary historical novel is an impassioned chronicle of the December 1852 coup d'etat in France engineered by the French President, who called himself "Louis Napoleon." "History of a Crime: The Testimony of an Eye-Witness" offers a fascinating insight into mid nineteenth-century French history and is highly recommended for those with an interest in the subject. Victor Marie Hugo (1802 - 1885) was a French novelist, dramatist, and poet belonging to the Romantic movement. He is widely hailed as one of the most accomplished and well-known French writers, originally achieving renown for his poetical endeavours-the most notable of which are the volumes "Les Contemplations" and "La Légende des siècles". Outside of his native country, Hugo's best-known works are his novels: "Les Misérables" (1862) and "Notre-Dame de Paris" (1831), commonly known as "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame". Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this book now in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781445565682
Publisher:	Hughes Press
Publication date:	04/06/2010
Pages:	242
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.55(d)

About the Author

"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

Table of Contents

	The First Day--The Ambush
I.	"Security"	9
II.	Paris sleeps--the Bell rings	13
III.	What had happened during the Night	15
IV.	Other Doings of the Night	31
V.	The Darkness of the Crime	33
VI.	"Placards"	35
VII.	No. 70, Rue Blanche	39
VIII.	"Violation of the Chamber"	46
IX.	An End worse than Death	56
X.	The Black Door	53
XI.	The High Court of Justice	60
II.	The Mairie of the Tenth Arrondissement	72
XIII.	Louis Bonaparte's Side-face	93
XIV.	The D'Orsay Barracks	95
XV.	Mazas	105
XVI.	The Episode of the Boulevard St. Martin	110
XVII.	The Rebound of the 24th June, 1848, on the 2d December 1851	120
XVIII.	The Representatives hunted down	126
XIX.	One Foot in the Tomb	134
XX.	The Burial of a Great Anniversary	143
	The Second Day--The Struggle
I.	They come to Arrest me	145
II.	From the Bastille to the Rue de Cotte	152
III.	The St. Antoine Barricade	156
IV.	The Workmen's Societies ask us for the Order to fight	171
V.	Baudin's Corpse	176
VI.	The Decrees of the Representatives who remained Free	181
VII.	The Archbishop	197
VIII.	Mount Valerien	203
IX.	The Lightning begins to flash among the People	207
X.	What Fleury went to do at Mazas	213
XI.	The End of the Second Day	219
	The Third Day--The Massacre
I.	Those who sleep and He who does not sleep	223
II.	The Proceedings of the Committee	225
III.	Inside the Elysee	233
IV.	Bonaparte's Familiar Spirits	237
V.	A Wavering Ally	242
VI.	Denis Dussoubs	244
VII.	Items and Interviews	245
VIII.	The Situation	250
IX.	The Porte Saint Martin	256
X.	My Visit to the Barricades	258
XI.	The Barricade of the Rue Meslay	262
XII.	The Barricade of the Mairie of the Fifth Arrondissement	266
XIII.	The Barricade of the Rue Thevenot	268
XIV.	Ossian and Scipio	272
XV.	The Question presents itself	279
XVI.	The Massacre	284
XVII.	The Appointment made with the Workmen's Societies	292
XVIII.	The Verification of Moral Laws	297
	The Fourth Day--The Victory
I.	What happened during the Night--the Rue Tiquetonne	301
II.	What happened during the Night--the Market Quarter	304
III.	What happened during the Night--the Petit Carreau	317
IV.	What was done during the Night--the Passage du Saumon	329
V.	Other Deeds of Darkness	336
VI.	The Consultative Committee	343
VII.	The Other List	349
VIII.	David d'Angers	352
IX.	Our Last Meeting	354
X.	Duty can have two Aspects	358
XI.	The Combat finished, the Ordeal begins	366
XII.	The Exiled	368
XIII.	The Military Commissions and the mixed Commissions	382
XIV.	A Religious Incident	386
XV.	How they came out of Ham	386
XVI.	A Retrospect	396
XVII.	Conduct of the Left	397
XVIII.	A Page written at Brussels	406
XIX.	The Infallible Benediction	410
	Conclusion--The Fall
Chap. I.411
Chap. II.413
Chap. III.415
Chap. IV.417
Chap. V.418
Chap. VI.420
Chap. VII.422
Chap. VIII.425
Chap. IX.427
Chap. X.428