The book The Romance of Victor Hugo And Juliette Drouet was written by author Henry Wellington Wack Here you can read free online of The Romance of Victor Hugo And Juliette Drouet book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Romance of Victor Hugo And Juliette Drouet a good or bad book?
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I have been so fortunate as to procure an old photograph of the poet with his humble band of Guernsey children. There are nearly forty of them in the group, and judging from their bright, contented little faces I infer that the picture is a record made after one of these periodic feasts. He loved little children with caressing tenderness. His poems on child- life humanly express the religion of mother- hood. In this connection the late Mr. F. H. Blicq, the poet's Guernsey barber, was the object... of much of Hugo's wit. Mr. Blicq had seven- teen children and was justly proud of his large family. The poet considered seventeen a poet's Cenevo* lence IRomance of t>cro Worship children a great blessing to any man "pro- vided they did not crowd him off the island. " No one was readier with a bon mot than Victor Hugo during the later years of his exile, when much of his wrath upon the vain head of "Napoleon le Petit " had spent itself, and a long period of literary activity had mellowed his recollection of the troublous times of '48 to '52.
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