Vol. 13 Núm. 1 (2012)
Artes

Pitié pour les Communards ! Victor Hugo face au royaume de Belgique

Michel Brix
Facultés Universitaires de Namur

Publicado 01-07-2012

Palabras clave

  • Victor Hugo,
  • death penalty,
  • Parisian Commune,
  • Belgium

Cómo citar

Brix, M. (2012). Pitié pour les Communards ! Victor Hugo face au royaume de Belgique. Verbum – Analecta Neolatina, 13(1), 5–17. https://doi.org/10.1556/Verb.13.2012.1.1

Resumen

Victor Hugo constantly fought for the abolition of the death penalty. One of his earliest works, Le Dernier Jour d’un condamné (1829), was already devoted to this issue. The present paper discusses how Hugo fought against those who insisted on shooting the troublemakers in the wake of the Parisian Commune (1871). These efforts put the writer in danger: he was living in Belgium at the time and was made to leave the country by order of the government. These events shed a particular light on the genesis of the poem called Les Fusillés in the collection of L'Année terrible.