The Terrible Year, Part 1: The Siege of Paris

by Victor Hugo, Brett Rutherford (Translator)

210 pages, Hardcover

Published November 4, 2025

About the author

After Napoleon III seized power in 1851, French writer Victor Marie Hugo went into exile and in 1870 returned to France; his novels include The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) and Les Misérables (1862).

This poet, playwright, novelist, dramatist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, and perhaps the most influential, important exponent of the Romantic movement in France, campaigned for human rights. People in France regard him as one of greatest poets of that country and know him better abroad.

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Part 1 of Hugo's poetry surrounding the war. This edition is translated into English and includes timelines and annotations to help the modern reader with some of the references that may be less obvious.