Lot n° 324
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: 750EUR
HUGO Victor [Besançon, 1802 - Paris, 1885], poète et écrivain français
Printed in Guernsey, dated "Hauteville House, 22 October 1868"; 45 x 14 cm.
Copy with the autograph mention signed "To Eugène Pelletan his friend
Victor Hugo" at the top.
"Victor Hugo to Spain. For a thousand years, from the sixth to the sixteenth century, one people was the first people of Europe, equal to Greece in epic, to Italy in art, to France in philosophy; this people had Leonidas under the name of Pelagius, and Achilles under the name of Cid; This people began with Viriate and ended with Riego; they had Lepanto, as the Greeks had Salamis; without him Cornelius would not have created the tragedy and Christopher Columbus would not have discovered America...»
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