β Victor Hugo
π Fiction
π
2010
π epubBooks (www.epubbooks.com)
π English
β 146 KB
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Napoleon the Little
β Scribed by Victor Hugo
- Publisher
- Kessinger Publishing
- Year
- 1852
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 148 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Napoleon the Little
Victor Hugo
The Works of Victor Hugo
Napoleon le Petit (literally, "Napoleon the Little") was an influential political pamphlet by Victor Hugo which condemned the reign of Napoleon III, Emperor of the French. Hugo lived in exile in Guernsey for most of Napoleon III's reign, and his criticism of the monarch was significant as he was one of the most prominent Frenchmen of the time, and was revered by many. It includes the concept of two and two make five as a denial of truth by authority, a notion later used by George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four
Volumes were smuggled into France (e.g. in bales of hay, and between metal sheets as a tin of sardines), read at secret meetings, and hand-copied.
On Thursday, December 20, 1848, the Constituent Assembly, being in session, surrounded at that moment by an imposing display of troops, heard the report of the Representative Waldeck-Rousseau, read on behalf of the committee which had been appointed to scrutinize the votes in the election of President of the Republic; a report in which general attention had marked this phrase, which embodied its whole idea: "It is the seal of its inviolable authority which the nation, by this admirable application of the fundamental law, itself affixes on the Constitution, to render it sacred and inviolable." Amid the profound silence of the nine hundred representatives, of whom almost the entire number was assembled, the President of the National Constituent Assembly, Armaud Marrast, rose and said:
"In the name of the French people,.
Library : General
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9781508485131
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