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Excerpt from The Library of Oratory, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 of 15: With Critical Studies of the World's Great Orators by Eminent Essayists
Of Louis XVIII in the year 1828. Young Hugo had meanwhile published his Odes et Ballades and Les Orientales, and was about to bring out Hernani, the drama that launched on his country the fierce contest between the Classicists and Romanticists, to the latter of whom Hugo and his friends joyously belonged. The literary revolution which Hernani brought about was speedily followed by the polit ical one, in 1830, in which Hugo was weaned from his adherence to Bourbonism, and identified himself with the popular cause. Though Louis Philippe had in 1845 made him a Peer of France, he continued loyal to republicanism, so much so, indeed, as to suffer banishment under Napoleon le Petit in 1852. But literature remained to the last his lodestar, and through all the political storm and stress of the time he plied his pen unintermittently and added to his triumphs such fictional masterpieces as N otre Dame de Paris, Les Miserables, Les Travailleurs de la Mer, l'homme qui rit, and Quatre-vingt-treize, besides much magnificent verse, and some speeches and orations of a high order, such as the two here reproduced.
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