HUGO, Victor.

Victor Hugo à Louis Bonaparte. Jersey, 8 April 1855.

[Jersey, Imprimerie Universelle = Brussels, Henri Samuel] [Bound after:][MAGEN, Hippolyte]. Les deux cours et les nuits de St.-Cloud. Moeurs, débauches et crimes de la famille Bonaparte. London, Jeffs, and Brussels, J. H. Briard, 1852. [and with:][CALLET, Pierre-Auguste]. La veille du sacre … London, W. Jeffs, 1853. [and with:][FAVRE, François]. Bonnes paroles d’un proscrit français à ses concitoyens. October 1852. Brussels, 1852. [and with:]DURRIEU, Xavier. Le coup d’état de Louis Bonaparte. Histoire de la Persecution de Décembre … Brussels, J. H. Briard, 1852. [and with:][ARAGO, Étienne]. Le deux Décembre, poème en cinq Chants. London and New York, 1853. %d 6 works in one vol., 18mo; very good copies, with half-titles where required, in contemporary quarter black morocco and marbled boards, spine lettered ‘Écrits de l’exil’. First edition, rare, of Hugo’s open letter to Napoleon III, written in exile in Jersey, protesting against the Emperor’s planned diplomatic visit to England: ‘Qu’est-ce que vous venez faire ici? à qui en voulez-vous? … Laissez l’exil tranquille. Ne venez pas.’ The visit went ahead, Napoleon III received the Order of the Garter, and Queen Victoria returned the favour, becoming the first British monarch to make an official visit to France since 1520. These events would indirectly contribute to Hugo’s expulsion from Jersey, along with a number of other French ‘proscrits’ at the end of October 1855.Hugo’s pamphlet is accompanied here by five similar works, written by authors in political exile after the coup d’état of 1851, and known to Hugo. Magen, Callet and Favre were journalists whose exile was passed in Belgium; Durrieu was editor of the Revolution and the closest to Hugo, who mentions him several times in The History of a Crime (which also refers in passing to Magen’s imprisonment) – he lived in exile in England and Spain; Arago, playwright and politician, and one of four talented brothers, was also in exile in Belgium. The abolitionist writer and fellow-exile Victor Schoelcher mentions in his Histoire des crimes du deux décembre (1852) the works by Durrieu, Favre, and Callet in the same breath as Hugo’s Châtiments. OCLC shows five copies of the Hugo (Koninklijke Bibliotheek; Harvard, Library of Congress, Indiana and Texas); three each of the Magen (Berlin Staatsbibliothek, Bayerischer Staatsbibliothek, International Institue of Social History) and the Durrieu (Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Radboud Universiteitsbibliotheek, Univerity of Toronto); and two of the Callet (Koninklijke Bibliotheek and Bayerischer Staatsbibliothek). The Favre and Arago pamphlets are not listed in OCLC in any edition.Clouzot, p. 149 ‘Très rare’; Carteret I, 415.

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