Aujourd'hui, les chapitres se sont retrouves, et il saisit la premiere occasion de les remettre a leur place.
Voici donc maintenant son oeuvre entiere, telle qu'il l'a revee, telle qu'il l'a faite, bonne ou mauvaise, durable ou fragile, mais telle qu'il la veut.
Sans doute ces chapitres retrouves auront peu de valeur aux yeux des personnes, d'ailleurs fort judicieuses, qui n'ont cherche dans Notre - Dame de Paris que le drame, que le roman. Mais il est peut - etre d'autres lecteurs qui n'ont pas trouve inutile d'etudier la pensee d'esthetique et de philosophie cachee dans ce livre, qui ont bien voulu, en lisant notre-dame de Paris, se plaire a demeler sous le ro man autre chose que le roman, et a suivre, qu'on nous passe ces expressions un peu ambitieuses, le systeme de l'historien et le but de l'artiste a travers la creation telle quelle du poete.
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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.