Medal Victor Hugo 1970 Lamourdedieu Allegorie Of Martial Arts 68 MM The Muse
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Bronze medal, from the Paris Mint (hallmark cornucopia since 1880) .
Minted in 1970.
Minted in 1970.
Copy showing some traces of handling and friction.
Engraver / Artist : Raoul LAMOURDEDIEU (1877-1953) .
Dimension : 68mm.
Weight : 171 g.
Metal : bronze.
Hallmark on the edge (mark on the edge) : cornucopia + bronze + 1970.
Dimension : 68mm.
Weight : 171 g.
Metal : bronze.
Hallmark on the edge (mark on the edge) : cornucopia + bronze + 1970.
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Victor Hugo is a French poet, playwright, writer, novelist and romantic designer, born February 26, 1802 (7 Ventôse Year X) in Besançon and died May 22, 1885 in Paris. He is considered one of the most important writers in the French language. He is also a political figure and a committed intellectual who had a major ideological role and occupies a significant place in the history of French letters in the 19th century.
In the theater, Victor Hugo established himself as one of the leaders of French romanticism by presenting his conception of romantic drama in the prefaces which introduced Cromwell in 1827, then Hernani in 1830, which are true manifestos, then through his other works dramas, in particular Lucrezia Borgia in 1833 and Ruy Blas in 1838.
His poetic work includes several collections of lyric poems, the most famous of which are Odes and Ballades published in 1826, Les Feuilles d'Automne in 1831 and Les Contemplations in 1856. Victor Hugo is also a poet engaged against Napoleon III in Les Châtiments, published in 1853, and an epic poet in La Légende des siècle, published from 1859 to 1883.
As a novelist, he met with great popular success, first with Notre-Dame de Paris in 1831, and even more with Les Misérables in 1862.
His varied work also includes political writings and speeches, travel accounts, collections of notes and memoirs, literary commentaries, abundant correspondence, nearly four thousand drawings, most of which were done in ink, as well as the design interior decorations and a contribution to photography.
Very involved in public debate, Victor Hugo was a parliamentarian under the July Monarchy and under the Second and Third Republic. He was exiled for nearly twenty years in Jersey and Guernsey during the Second Empire, of which he was one of the great opponents. Attached to peace and freedom and sensitive to human misery, he spoke in favor of numerous social advances, opposed the death penalty and supported the idea of a unified Europe.
His resolutely republican commitment in the second part of his life and his immense literary work made him an emblematic character, whom the Third Republic honored with a national funeral and the transfer of his remains to the Panthéon in Paris on June 1, 1885, ten days after his death.
Having strongly contributed to the renewal of poetry and theater and having marked his era by his political and social positions, Victor Hugo is still celebrated today, in France and abroad, as an illustrious character, whose life and the work have been the subject of multiple comments and tributes.
In the theater, Victor Hugo established himself as one of the leaders of French romanticism by presenting his conception of romantic drama in the prefaces which introduced Cromwell in 1827, then Hernani in 1830, which are true manifestos, then through his other works dramas, in particular Lucrezia Borgia in 1833 and Ruy Blas in 1838.
His poetic work includes several collections of lyric poems, the most famous of which are Odes and Ballades published in 1826, Les Feuilles d'Automne in 1831 and Les Contemplations in 1856. Victor Hugo is also a poet engaged against Napoleon III in Les Châtiments, published in 1853, and an epic poet in La Légende des siècle, published from 1859 to 1883.
As a novelist, he met with great popular success, first with Notre-Dame de Paris in 1831, and even more with Les Misérables in 1862.
His varied work also includes political writings and speeches, travel accounts, collections of notes and memoirs, literary commentaries, abundant correspondence, nearly four thousand drawings, most of which were done in ink, as well as the design interior decorations and a contribution to photography.
Very involved in public debate, Victor Hugo was a parliamentarian under the July Monarchy and under the Second and Third Republic. He was exiled for nearly twenty years in Jersey and Guernsey during the Second Empire, of which he was one of the great opponents. Attached to peace and freedom and sensitive to human misery, he spoke in favor of numerous social advances, opposed the death penalty and supported the idea of a unified Europe.
His resolutely republican commitment in the second part of his life and his immense literary work made him an emblematic character, whom the Third Republic honored with a national funeral and the transfer of his remains to the Panthéon in Paris on June 1, 1885, ten days after his death.
Having strongly contributed to the renewal of poetry and theater and having marked his era by his political and social positions, Victor Hugo is still celebrated today, in France and abroad, as an illustrious character, whose life and the work have been the subject of multiple comments and tributes.
Victor-Marie Hugo1 is the son of the general of the Empire Joseph Léopold Sigisbert Hugo (1773-1828), created count, according to family tradition, by Joseph Bonaparte, king of Spain, captain in garrison in Doubs at the time of birth of his son, and of Sophie Trébuchet (1772-1821), from the Nantes bourgeoisie.
Birthplace of Victor Hugo in Besançon.
He was born on February 26, 18022 ("7 ventôse year X" according to the Republican calendar then in force), in Besançon, on the 1st floor of 140 Grande Rue, since renamed Place Victor-Hugo). Barely born, he is already the center of attention. A fragile child, his mother took great care of him3, as he would later recount in his autobiographical poem This century was two years old.
The last of a family of three boys after Abel Joseph Hugo (1798-1855) and Eugène Hugo (1800-1837), he spent his childhood in Paris, at 8 rue des Feuillantines, in rented accommodation in the former Feuillantines convent , sold as national property during the Revolution. This stay in a wild garden, a vestige of the park of the old monastery, will leave him with happy memories.
Frequent stays in Naples and Spain, following his father's military assignments, marked his early years. Thus, in 1811, when Madame Hugo joined her husband, the family stopped in Hernani, a town in the Spanish Basque Country. The same year, he, with his brothers Abel and Eugène, boarded in a religious institution in Madrid, the Real Colegio de San Antonio Abad4. In 1812, he moved to Paris with his mother who had separated from her husband, because she was having an affair with the General of the Empire Victor Fanneau de la Horie, godfather and tutor of Victor Hugo, from whom he took his first name5 .
In September 1815, he entered the Cordier pension with his brother. According to Adèle Foucher, his childhood friend who later became his wife, it was around this age that he began to write verses. Self-taught, it was through trial and error that he learned rhyme and measure6. He is encouraged by his mother to whom he reads his works, as well as his brother Eugène. His writings were reread and corrected by a young study master from the Cordier pension who took a liking to the two brothers7. His vocation is precocious and his ambitions are immense. Barely fourteen years old, Victor noted in a diary: “I want to be Chateaubriand or nothing”8.
Victor Hugo portrayed by Adèle Foucher in 1820.
Self-portrait of Adèle Foucher in 1825.
In 1817, Victor Hugo was fifteen years old when he participated in a poetry competition organized by the French Academy, on the theme Happiness that study provides in all situations of life. According to Adèle Foucher's account, the jury is on the verge of awarding him the prize, but the title of his poem (Three chandeliers barely) suggests too much his young age and the Academy believes it to be a hoax: he receives only one mention9. He competed without success in the following years but won, in competitions organized by the Academy of Floral Games of Toulouse, in 1819, a Golden Lily for The Statue of Henri IVA 1 and a Golden Amaranthe for The Virgins of VerdunA 2,10, and a golden Amaranth in 1820 for Moses on the Nile11,12. Having won three prizes, he became Master of Floral Games in 182013, followed by Chateaubriand the following year14.
Encouraged by his success, Victor Hugo abandoned mathematics, for which he had an aptitude (he took preparatory classes at the Louis-le-Grand high school15), and embraced a literary career. With his brothers Abel and Eugène, in 1819 he founded an ultra-royalist magazine, Le Conservateur littéraire, which already drew attention to his talent. His first collection of poems, Odes, appeared in 1821: he was then nineteen years old. The thousand and five hundred copies sold out in four months. King Louis XVIII, who owned a copy, granted him an annual pension of a thousand francs16, which allowed him to live from his passion and to consider marrying his childhood friend Adèle Foucher5.
Young writer
Portrait of Victor Hugo against a background of Notre-Dame de Reims.
Canvas by Jean Alaux, house of Victor Hugo, 1822.
The death of his mother on June 27, 1821 affected him deeply17. Indeed, the years of separation from his father had brought him closer to her. On October 12, 1822, he married Adèle Foucher, his childhood friend, in the Saint-Sulpice church in Paris. From their marriage five children were born. The first, Léopold, in 1823, only lived a few months. Léopoldine followed in 1824, Charles in 1826, François-Victor in 1828 and Adèle in 1830.
Hugo began writing Han d'Islande, published in 1823, which received a mixed reception, but earned its author a new pension of two thousand francs. A well-argued criticism of Charles Nodier is the occasion for a meeting between the two men and the birth of a friendship18. At the Arsenal library, the cradle of romanticism, he participated in the meetings of the Cenacle, which would have a great influence on its development19. Its has
Birthplace of Victor Hugo in Besançon.
He was born on February 26, 18022 ("7 ventôse year X" according to the Republican calendar then in force), in Besançon, on the 1st floor of 140 Grande Rue, since renamed Place Victor-Hugo). Barely born, he is already the center of attention. A fragile child, his mother took great care of him3, as he would later recount in his autobiographical poem This century was two years old.
The last of a family of three boys after Abel Joseph Hugo (1798-1855) and Eugène Hugo (1800-1837), he spent his childhood in Paris, at 8 rue des Feuillantines, in rented accommodation in the former Feuillantines convent , sold as national property during the Revolution. This stay in a wild garden, a vestige of the park of the old monastery, will leave him with happy memories.
Frequent stays in Naples and Spain, following his father's military assignments, marked his early years. Thus, in 1811, when Madame Hugo joined her husband, the family stopped in Hernani, a town in the Spanish Basque Country. The same year, he, with his brothers Abel and Eugène, boarded in a religious institution in Madrid, the Real Colegio de San Antonio Abad4. In 1812, he moved to Paris with his mother who had separated from her husband, because she was having an affair with the General of the Empire Victor Fanneau de la Horie, godfather and tutor of Victor Hugo, from whom he took his first name5 .
In September 1815, he entered the Cordier pension with his brother. According to Adèle Foucher, his childhood friend who later became his wife, it was around this age that he began to write verses. Self-taught, it was through trial and error that he learned rhyme and measure6. He is encouraged by his mother to whom he reads his works, as well as his brother Eugène. His writings were reread and corrected by a young study master from the Cordier pension who took a liking to the two brothers7. His vocation is precocious and his ambitions are immense. Barely fourteen years old, Victor noted in a diary: “I want to be Chateaubriand or nothing”8.
Victor Hugo portrayed by Adèle Foucher in 1820.
Self-portrait of Adèle Foucher in 1825.
In 1817, Victor Hugo was fifteen years old when he participated in a poetry competition organized by the French Academy, on the theme Happiness that study provides in all situations of life. According to Adèle Foucher's account, the jury is on the verge of awarding him the prize, but the title of his poem (Three chandeliers barely) suggests too much his young age and the Academy believes it to be a hoax: he receives only one mention9. He competed without success in the following years but won, in competitions organized by the Academy of Floral Games of Toulouse, in 1819, a Golden Lily for The Statue of Henri IVA 1 and a Golden Amaranthe for The Virgins of VerdunA 2,10, and a golden Amaranth in 1820 for Moses on the Nile11,12. Having won three prizes, he became Master of Floral Games in 182013, followed by Chateaubriand the following year14.
Encouraged by his success, Victor Hugo abandoned mathematics, for which he had an aptitude (he took preparatory classes at the Louis-le-Grand high school15), and embraced a literary career. With his brothers Abel and Eugène, in 1819 he founded an ultra-royalist magazine, Le Conservateur littéraire, which already drew attention to his talent. His first collection of poems, Odes, appeared in 1821: he was then nineteen years old. The thousand and five hundred copies sold out in four months. King Louis XVIII, who owned a copy, granted him an annual pension of a thousand francs16, which allowed him to live from his passion and to consider marrying his childhood friend Adèle Foucher5.
Young writer
Portrait of Victor Hugo against a background of Notre-Dame de Reims.
Canvas by Jean Alaux, house of Victor Hugo, 1822.
The death of his mother on June 27, 1821 affected him deeply17. Indeed, the years of separation from his father had brought him closer to her. On October 12, 1822, he married Adèle Foucher, his childhood friend, in the Saint-Sulpice church in Paris. From their marriage five children were born. The first, Léopold, in 1823, only lived a few months. Léopoldine followed in 1824, Charles in 1826, François-Victor in 1828 and Adèle in 1830.
Hugo began writing Han d'Islande, published in 1823, which received a mixed reception, but earned its author a new pension of two thousand francs. A well-argued criticism of Charles Nodier is the occasion for a meeting between the two men and the birth of a friendship18. At the Arsenal library, the cradle of romanticism, he participated in the meetings of the Cenacle, which would have a great influence on its development19. Its has
Victor Hugo and Adèle Foucher had five children:
Leopold (July 16, 1823 - October 10, 1823);
Léopoldine (August 28, 1824 – September 4, 1843);
Charles (November 3, 1826 - Mars 13, 1871);
François-Victor (October 28, 1828 - December 26, 1873);
Adèle (August 24, 1830 – April 21, 1915).
Victor Hugo was deeply marked by the disappearance of his daughter Léopoldine, who died drowned with her husband Charles Vacquerie in the waters of the Seine, on September 4, 1843 in Villequier, at the age of nineteen, a few months after their marriage227. The death of Léopoldine, that of the children to whom he was closest228, had a great influence on his work and his life229. Having learned of the disappearance of his daughter while he was traveling, Victor Hugo then interrupted his annual travel habits, which he did not resume until 1861230. The poetic collection Les Contemplations pays homage to him, in particular through the poem Tomorrow, from dawn…. The collection is divided into two parts, Formerly (1830-1843) and Today (1843-1855), the year which separates them being that of the death of Léopoldine231.
Victor Hugo was close to his two sons Charles and François-Victor, who shared his political opinions. In 1848, they founded the opinion newspaper L'Événement with their father. In 1852, after their release from prison where they were locked up for press offences, they joined their father in exile and remained by his side in Jersey, then for the first ten years in Guernsey. During exile, Charles devoted himself to photography, while François-Victor translated the complete works of William Shakespeare into French, which would inspire his father's writing of William Shakespeare. The two brothers settled in Brussels in 1865, then founded the political newspaper Le Rappel in 1869, to which their father contributed. Charles died suddenly in 1871, then François-Victor in 1873. Victor Hugo pays tribute to them in Mes fils, a text published in 1874.
Adèle Hugo, last born of the children of Adèle Foucher and Victor Hugo, was deeply upset by the death of her big sister and never completely recovered from this tragic disappearance. Accompanying her father to Jersey and then to Guernsey, she kept an Exile Journal, a testimony to the life of the outlaws and her family during this period. She fled to Canada in 1863 to follow a British officer she had known in Jersey and whom she hoped to marry232. From 1872 she had to be placed in a nursing home, at the initiative of her father and Émile Allix, the family doctor.
After the sudden death of his son Charles in 1871, Victor Hugo took care of the latter's two children, Georges and Jeanne. The pleasure of raising his grandchildren inspired him to write The Art of Being a Grandfather, published in 1877.
Mistresses
Detailed articles: Juliette Drouet and Léonie d'Aunet.
In 1833, Victor Hugo and Juliette Drouet began a romantic affair which lasted until her death in 1883. Following him during his exile, while living in separate accommodation, she accompanied him on his numerous trips to France and Europe. In December 1851, she introduced him to a certain Lanvin, a typographer, who offered her his passport. She then had him sheltered in secret by friends. In 1860, Hugo dedicated the proofs of The Legend of the Centuries to him and paid him a tribute: “If I was not taken and, consequently, shot, if I am alive at this time, I owe it to Madame Juliette Drouet who, at the risk of his own freedom and his own life, preserved me from all traps, watched over me tirelessly, found me safe havens and saved me, with what admirable intelligence, with what zeal, with what heroic bravery, God knows and will reward him for it233! ".
She followed him in his exile to Guernsey where Victor Hugo rented him a house, La Fallue, near the family home. On June 16, 1864, she moved to Hauteville Fairy , which Hugo had decorated. On December 22 of the same year, she received an invitation from Adèle Hugo to the Christmas that the family was organizing for the benefit of poor children, which was a way of formalizing this connection234. On September 25, 1870, during the siege of Paris, Victor Hugo left instructions to his children, including these, about Juliette Drouet: “She saved my life in December 1851. She suffered exile for me. his soul never left mine. May those who loved me love him. May those who loved me respect her. She is my widow.235 » She wrote him some twenty thousand letters expressing her immense love and jealousy. In Les Misérables, Victor Hugo slips in a very intimate allusion to their love life. The date of February 16, 1833, the wedding night of Cosette and Marius (Part Five, Book VI, Chapter I), was also the date when Juliette gave herself to Victor for the first time. Hugo's entourage dissuades him from attending his mistress's funeral.
Juliette Drouet was not, however, in the Theater
1816: Irtamène
1819 or 1820: Inez de Castro
1827: Cromwell
1828: Amy Robsart
1830: Hernani
1831: Marion de Lorme
1832: The king has fun
1833: Lucrezia Borgia
1833: Mary Tudor
1835: Angelo, tyrant of Padua
1838: Ruy Blas
1843: The Burgraves
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Leopold (July 16, 1823 - October 10, 1823);
Léopoldine (August 28, 1824 – September 4, 1843);
Charles (November 3, 1826 - Mars 13, 1871);
François-Victor (October 28, 1828 - December 26, 1873);
Adèle (August 24, 1830 – April 21, 1915).
Victor Hugo was deeply marked by the disappearance of his daughter Léopoldine, who died drowned with her husband Charles Vacquerie in the waters of the Seine, on September 4, 1843 in Villequier, at the age of nineteen, a few months after their marriage227. The death of Léopoldine, that of the children to whom he was closest228, had a great influence on his work and his life229. Having learned of the disappearance of his daughter while he was traveling, Victor Hugo then interrupted his annual travel habits, which he did not resume until 1861230. The poetic collection Les Contemplations pays homage to him, in particular through the poem Tomorrow, from dawn…. The collection is divided into two parts, Formerly (1830-1843) and Today (1843-1855), the year which separates them being that of the death of Léopoldine231.
Victor Hugo was close to his two sons Charles and François-Victor, who shared his political opinions. In 1848, they founded the opinion newspaper L'Événement with their father. In 1852, after their release from prison where they were locked up for press offences, they joined their father in exile and remained by his side in Jersey, then for the first ten years in Guernsey. During exile, Charles devoted himself to photography, while François-Victor translated the complete works of William Shakespeare into French, which would inspire his father's writing of William Shakespeare. The two brothers settled in Brussels in 1865, then founded the political newspaper Le Rappel in 1869, to which their father contributed. Charles died suddenly in 1871, then François-Victor in 1873. Victor Hugo pays tribute to them in Mes fils, a text published in 1874.
Adèle Hugo, last born of the children of Adèle Foucher and Victor Hugo, was deeply upset by the death of her big sister and never completely recovered from this tragic disappearance. Accompanying her father to Jersey and then to Guernsey, she kept an Exile Journal, a testimony to the life of the outlaws and her family during this period. She fled to Canada in 1863 to follow a British officer she had known in Jersey and whom she hoped to marry232. From 1872 she had to be placed in a nursing home, at the initiative of her father and Émile Allix, the family doctor.
After the sudden death of his son Charles in 1871, Victor Hugo took care of the latter's two children, Georges and Jeanne. The pleasure of raising his grandchildren inspired him to write The Art of Being a Grandfather, published in 1877.
Mistresses
Detailed articles: Juliette Drouet and Léonie d'Aunet.
In 1833, Victor Hugo and Juliette Drouet began a romantic affair which lasted until her death in 1883. Following him during his exile, while living in separate accommodation, she accompanied him on his numerous trips to France and Europe. In December 1851, she introduced him to a certain Lanvin, a typographer, who offered her his passport. She then had him sheltered in secret by friends. In 1860, Hugo dedicated the proofs of The Legend of the Centuries to him and paid him a tribute: “If I was not taken and, consequently, shot, if I am alive at this time, I owe it to Madame Juliette Drouet who, at the risk of his own freedom and his own life, preserved me from all traps, watched over me tirelessly, found me safe havens and saved me, with what admirable intelligence, with what zeal, with what heroic bravery, God knows and will reward him for it233! ".
She followed him in his exile to Guernsey where Victor Hugo rented him a house, La Fallue, near the family home. On June 16, 1864, she moved to Hauteville Fairy , which Hugo had decorated. On December 22 of the same year, she received an invitation from Adèle Hugo to the Christmas that the family was organizing for the benefit of poor children, which was a way of formalizing this connection234. On September 25, 1870, during the siege of Paris, Victor Hugo left instructions to his children, including these, about Juliette Drouet: “She saved my life in December 1851. She suffered exile for me. his soul never left mine. May those who loved me love him. May those who loved me respect her. She is my widow.235 » She wrote him some twenty thousand letters expressing her immense love and jealousy. In Les Misérables, Victor Hugo slips in a very intimate allusion to their love life. The date of February 16, 1833, the wedding night of Cosette and Marius (Part Five, Book VI, Chapter I), was also the date when Juliette gave herself to Victor for the first time. Hugo's entourage dissuades him from attending his mistress's funeral.
Juliette Drouet was not, however, in the Theater
1816: Irtamène
1819 or 1820: Inez de Castro
1827: Cromwell
1828: Amy Robsart
1830: Hernani
1831: Marion de Lorme
1832: The king has fun
1833: Lucrezia Borgia
1833: Mary Tudor
1835: Angelo, tyrant of Padua
1838: Ruy Blas
1843: The Burgraves
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