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Victor HUGO

Lettre autographe signée adressée à Louis Labasse : "Hélas, c'est triste, je n'ai affaire qu'aux petits"

Marine Terrace [Jersey] 22 décembre 1854, 15x21,3cm, 2 pages sur un feuillet remplié.

Autograph letter signed by Victor Hugo addressed to the drama writer and Belgian journalist Louis Labasse, "Editor in Chief of The Nation ". 33 lines in black ink on a folded slip. Recipient's address and sender's initials on the fourth page. Some erasures, underlines and corrections. Some folds inherent in the enveloping of the letter.
Unpublished letter, mixing lyricism and politics, in which the exiled Jersey confirms his animosity towards Napoleon the Small.
A voluntary exile in Jersey, Hugo nevertheless continues to distance himself from his political and literary struggle through correspondence with several journalists, including Louis Labasse: "Our excellent friend will give you a few lines that I think are useful, given the Bonapartist provocation part of the English parliament. Would you be good enough, by publishing them, to add the note which will seem to you, like me, essential? "This letter is an opportunity for him, during the war of Crimea, invoking the greatness of a then defunct political generation:" It is good that we know what it says Mr. Peel, son of the great. Alas, it's sad, I'm dealing only small. "For this rant of great lyricism, Hugo draws a parallel between France and England, charging usual Napoleon III" Little "he opposes the" great ^"Napoleon. Robert Peel (1822-1895), the eldest son of the English Prime Minister of the same name, had indeed instigated a few days earlier the anti-Bonapartism of Victor Hugo: "This particular was a kind of quarrel with the person distinguished and elevated that the people of France chose themselves as sovereign, and went to tell the people of Jersey that our alliance with the Emperor of the French was a moral degradation for England. How is this all about Mr. Victor Hugo? If foreigners who have found a safe haven in our country should once again utter such miserable nonsense, [I] would call to the Honorable Lord, Minister of the Interior, to think about how it would be appropriate to take it to stop it. ("The address in answer to the speech", on Hansard 1803-2005, December 12, 1854).

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