HUGO (Victor) - Lot 122

HUGO (Victor) HUGO (Victor) 1802-1885. Born in Besançon. Poet, writer, playwright. L.A.S. "Victor Hugo" to Jules Noriac. Hauteville House (Guernsey), March 4, undated. 1 page in-8. Suscription. Slate laid paper. Remainder of black wax seal (missing at head, without affecting text). Hugo addresses the director of Soleil, a literary daily founded in 1865 by Moïse Polydore Millaud, who published Les Travailleurs de la mer in serial form. ...I don't forget Méry, and I'll prove it. But I couldn't subscribe. Read the subscription list again, and at first glance you'll see that my name wasn't on it. This is a private letter and requires no publicity. Jules Noriac (1827-1882) was a journalist, playwright, writer, librettist and theater director.Joseph Méry was a journalist, writer, librettist and friend of Balzac, Nerval, Dumas, Verdi, etc. Victor Hugo lived in Guernsey. Victor Hugo lived in Guernsey, Channel Islands, for the last 15 years of a 19-year exile. Banished from France following Louis Napoléon Bonaparte's coup d'état on December 2, 1851, he was also expelled from Belgium in 1852 and Jersey in 1855. He settled in Guernsey, where he acquired Hauteville House in 1856 with the proceeds from the sale of Les Contemplations.