Ruy Blas

Name: Ruy Blas
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Author: Victor Hugo
ISBN: 9782266225564

Victor Hugo

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En 1838, en moins d'un mois, Victor Hugo écrit un drame étincelant, flamboyant d'audace, de fantaisie, de ravissements sentimentaux, de fureur politique et de grandeur. Depuis lors, le coeur et la bravoure de Ruy Blas enthousiasment les générations.
C'est au XVIIe siècle, à la cour d'Espagne, dans les ruines d'un empire qui s'écroule. Pour se venger de sa disgrâce, un ministre incite son valet à séduire la reine. Et nul n'ignore que le " ver de terre " va tomber amoureux de " l'étoile ", que celle-ci va l'aimer follement et faire de lui un premier ministre se prenant au jeu avec un courage et une droiture exemplaires.
Hugo savait tout de la mort des empires, de l'attrait des reines pour les domestiques, de la rapacité des gouvernants, de la dignité de l'être humain. Et de la magnifique symphonie de la langue française.

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.