Notre-Dame de Paris
Lorsque Victor Hugo meurt en 1884, un contemporain résume la situation par ces mots : "Il a désencombré l'horizon. Parce que dès que l'auteur des Châtiments s'attaquait à un genre, il paraissait réduire la taille de ses confrères. Cela vaut particulièrement pour Notre-Dame de Paris. Le roman historique avait déjà été mis à la mode par Walter Scott, mais Hugo arrive avec la puissance de son verbe, son art des vastes synthèses, un sens dramatique éprouvé. Les rivaux s'évaporent. L'oeuvre se dresse à l'égale de la cathédrale de pierre et résiste au temps.
Pourquoi Notre-Dame de Paris continue de se lire, de se jouer, de se chanter et de... s'enregistrer ? Parce que Notre-Dame de Paris est l'une des plus grandes oeuvres humaines."
Qui d'autre pouvait approcher ce monument littéraire qu'André Dussollier, lecteur talentueux et reconnu ? André Dussollier devient Victor Hugo et nous immerge dans l'oralité romanesque d'une des plus belles histoires au monde.
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Pourquoi Notre-Dame de Paris continue de se lire, de se jouer, de se chanter et de... s'enregistrer ? Parce que Notre-Dame de Paris est l'une des plus grandes oeuvres humaines."
Qui d'autre pouvait approcher ce monument littéraire qu'André Dussollier, lecteur talentueux et reconnu ? André Dussollier devient Victor Hugo et nous immerge dans l'oralité romanesque d'une des plus belles histoires au monde.
Victor Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo (French: [viktɔʁ maʁi yɡo] ; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist, human rights activist and politician.
His most famous works are the novels The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) and Les Misérables (1862). In France, Hugo is renowned for his poetry collections, such as Les Contemplations and La Légende des siècles (The Legend of the Ages). Hugo was at the forefront of the Romantic literary movement with his play Cromwell and drama Hernani. His works have inspired music, both during his lifetime and after his death, including the opera Rigoletto and the musicals Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris. He produced more than 4,000 drawings in his lifetime, and campaigned for social causes such as the abolition of capital punishment and slavery.
Although he was a committed royalist when young, Hugo's views changed as the decades passed, and he became a passionate supporter of republicanism, serving in politics as both deputy and senator. His work touched upon most of the political and social issues and the artistic trends of his time. His opposition to absolutism, and his literary stature, established him as a national hero. Hugo died on 22 May 1885, aged 83. He was given a state funeral in the Panthéon of Paris, which was attended by over two million people, the largest in French history.
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