The dawn of 5 July 1845 opens an eye on a Paris alangui. Leonie Biard, age 25, and Victor Hugo, 43 years of age, are tenderly entwined in the apartment that the new peer of France comes to rent passage Saint-Roch. Poor poet, he has to comfort himself : his wife, Adele, had refused him for a long time, and his mistress, Juliette Drouet, became to him as commonplace as a second wife. The night had been exhausting, even for a Victor to the quarantine burning.

in Short, Victor and Léonie sleep peacefully when they are awakened by an avalanche of shots against...

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