HUGO Victor :

Lot 149
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3000 - 4000 EUR
HUGO Victor :
For a soldier. Michel Lévy Paris 1875. E.O. Precious sending to the deputy of the Vendée Léon BIENVENU. Bound in-8 half brown chagrin with corners, spine with 5 nerves and fleurons, bound without the covers. Very light foxing on some pages. Famous plea of Hugo for the defense of the soldier WHITE who was sentenced to death by the Court Martial for serious insult to his superior. Hugo, a fierce opponent of capital punishment, wrote a brilliant and astute plea (drawing a parallel with the fate of Marshal Bazaine). Blanc was not shot in the end.
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