Artist: Victor Hugo
Lyrics of Artist: Victor Hugo
Lyrics of Artist: Victor Hugo
[Lyric] Vol. I Book I Chap. IX: The Brother as Depicted by the Sister (Victor Hugo)
(VOLUME I: FANTINE; BOOK I: A JUST MAN) In order to furnish an idea of the private establishment of the Bishop of D——, and of the manner in which those two sainted women subordinated their actions, their thoughts, their feminine instincts even, which are easily alarmed, to the habits and purposes of the Bishop, without his even taking the trouble...Learn MoremiscVictor Hugo[Lyric] Vol. I Book I Chap. I: M. Myriel (Victor Hugo)
(VOLUME I: FANTINE; BOOK I: A JUST MAN) In 1815, M. Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D—— He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see of D—— since 1806. Although this detail has no connection whatever with the real substance of what we are about to relate, it will not be superfluous, if merely for...Learn MoremiscVictor Hugo[Lyric] Vol. I Book VII Chap. VIII: An Entrance by Favor (Victor Hugo)
(VOL. I: FANTINE; BOOK VII: THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR) Although he did not suspect the fact, the mayor of M. sur M. enjoyed a sort of celebrity. For the space of seven years his reputation for virtue had filled the whole of Bas Boulonnais; it had eventually passed the confines of a small district and had been spread abroad through two or three...Learn MoremiscVictor Hugo[Lyric] Vol. I Book VII Chap. XI: Champmathieu More and More Astonished (Victor Hugo)
(VOL. I: FANTINE; BOOK VII: THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR) It was he, in fact. The clerk's lamp illumined his countenance. He held his hat in his hand; there was no disorder in his clothing; his coat was carefully buttoned; he was very pale, and he trembled slightly; his hair, which had still been gray on his arrival in Arras, was now entirely white: it...Learn MoremiscVictor Hugo[Lyric] Vol. I Book VII Chap. IX: A Place Where Convictions are in Process of Formation (Victor Hugo)
(VOL. I: FANTINE; BOOK VII: THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR) He advanced a pace, closed the door mechanically behind him, and remained standing, contemplating what he saw. It was a vast and badly lighted apartment, now full of uproar, now full of silence, where all the apparatus of a criminal case, with its petty and mournful gravity in the midst of the...Learn MoremiscVictor Hugo[Lyric] Vol. I Book I Chap. V: Monseigneur Bienvenu Made his Cassocks Last too Long (Victor Hugo)
(VOLUME I: FANTINE; BOOK I: A JUST MAN) The private life of M. Myriel was filled with the same thoughts as his public life. The voluntary poverty in which the Bishop of D—— lived, would have been a solemn and charming sight for any one who could have viewed it close at hand. Like all old men, and like the majority of thinkers, he slept little....Learn MoremiscVictor Hugo[Lyric] Vol. I Book I Chap. X: The Bishop in the Presence of an Unknown Light (Victor Hugo)
(VOLUME I: FANTINE; BOOK I: A JUST MAN) At an epoch a little later than the date of the letter cited in the preceding pages, he did a thing which, if the whole town was to be believed, was even more hazardous than his trip across the mountains infested with bandits. In the country near D—— a man lived quite alone. This man, we will state at once,...Learn MoremiscVictor Hugo[Lyric] Vol. III Book VIII Chap. XI: Offers of Service from Misery to Wretchedness (Victor Hugo)
(VOLUME III: MARIUS; BOOK VIII: THE WICKED POOR MAN) Marius ascended the stairs of the hovel with slow steps; at the moment when he was about to re-enter his cell, he caught sight of the elder Jondrette girl following him through the corridor. The very sight of this girl was odious to him; it was she who had his five francs, it was too late to...Learn MoremiscVictor Hugo[Lyric] Vol. IV Book I Chap. I: Well Cut (Victor Hugo)
(VOLUME IV: SAINT-DENIS; BOOK I: A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY) 1831 and 1832, the two years which are immediately connected with the Revolution of July, form one of the most peculiar and striking moments of history. These two years rise like two mountains midway between those which precede and those which follow them. They have a revolutionary...Learn MoremiscVictor Hugo[Lyric] Vol. III Book VII Chap. I: Mines and Miners (Victor Hugo)
(VOLUME III: MARIUS; BOOK VII: PATRON MINETTE) Human societies all have what is called in theatrical parlance, a third lower floor. The social soil is everywhere undermined, sometimes for good, sometimes for evil. These works are superposed one upon the other. There are superior mines and inferior mines. There is a top and a bottom in this...Learn MoremiscVictor Hugo[Lyric] Vol. III Book III Chap. V: The Utility of Going to Mass In Order to Become a Revolutionist (Victor Hugo)
(VOLUME III: MARIUS; BOOK III: THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON) Marius had preserved the religious habits of his childhood. One Sunday, when he went to hear mass at Saint-Sulpice, at that same chapel of the Virgin whither his aunt had led him when a small lad, he placed himself behind a pillar, being more absent-minded and thoughtful than usual...Learn MoremiscVictor Hugo[Lyric] Vol. III Book VIII Chap. XVII: The Use Made of Marius Five-Franc Piece (Victor Hugo)
(VOLUME III: MARIUS; BOOK VIII: THE WICKED POOR MAN) Marius decided that the moment had now arrived when he must resume his post at his observatory. In a twinkling, and with the agility of his age, he had reached the hole in the partition. He looked. The interior of the Jondrette apartment presented a curious aspect, and Marius found an...Learn MoremiscVictor Hugo
