Excerpt from The Novels and Poems of Victor Marie Hugo, Vol. 13: History of a CrimeTms book was written twenty-six years ago, at Brussels, during the first months of exile. It was begun on the fourteenth of December, 1851, the day after the author reached Belgium, and it was completed on the fifth of May, 1852, as if chance would commemorate the anniversary of the death of the first Bonaparte with the condemnation of the second. Chance also, b...
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