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HUGO Victor (1802-1885).
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HUGO Victor (1802-1885).
L.A.S. "Victor Hugo", H.H. [Hauteville House] June 25 [1865?], to Eugène RASCOL| 2 pages in-8 on blue paper. Against the death penalty. [Eugène RASCOL edited the Courrier de l'Europe, a weekly published in London].
"Would you allow me to abuse you for two obligations. 1° Si vous savez où demeure et vit le Freemasons' Magazine, lui envoyer ce pli. 2° ... a great service to be rendered to a young and beautiful talent. Mr. E. PILOTELL, a Parisian painter with a great future, has done a very fine drawing on the death penalty| it is dramatic and striking| but striking to the point of being capable of being seized. Hence the fear of the Paris publishers, who dare not publish this print. Do you know a publisher in London who would be braver? To buy this drawing from Mr. Pilotell and publish it would be to do two favors, one for talent, the other for human life. Good England is going terribly wrong at the moment with its in camera hangings. Nothing could be more hideous. You have protested eloquently and valiantly"... He leaves for Brussels, returning in October to Guernsey, where he awaits Rascol: "Your table is always set, as you know, at my family table"...
[The painter and press caricaturist Georges Labadie, known as PILOTELL (1844-1918), replaced André Gill at L'Éclipse and unsuccessfully founded Le Gamin de Paris (1866) and La Feuille (1867). Very active on the side of the insurgents during the Commune, founding La Caricature politique, he later had to live in exile and died in London].
L.A.S. "Victor Hugo", H.H. [Hauteville House] June 25 [1865?], to Eugène RASCOL| 2 pages in-8 on blue paper. Against the death penalty. [Eugène RASCOL edited the Courrier de l'Europe, a weekly published in London].
"Would you allow me to abuse you for two obligations. 1° Si vous savez où demeure et vit le Freemasons' Magazine, lui envoyer ce pli. 2° ... a great service to be rendered to a young and beautiful talent. Mr. E. PILOTELL, a Parisian painter with a great future, has done a very fine drawing on the death penalty| it is dramatic and striking| but striking to the point of being capable of being seized. Hence the fear of the Paris publishers, who dare not publish this print. Do you know a publisher in London who would be braver? To buy this drawing from Mr. Pilotell and publish it would be to do two favors, one for talent, the other for human life. Good England is going terribly wrong at the moment with its in camera hangings. Nothing could be more hideous. You have protested eloquently and valiantly"... He leaves for Brussels, returning in October to Guernsey, where he awaits Rascol: "Your table is always set, as you know, at my family table"...
[The painter and press caricaturist Georges Labadie, known as PILOTELL (1844-1918), replaced André Gill at L'Éclipse and unsuccessfully founded Le Gamin de Paris (1866) and La Feuille (1867). Very active on the side of the insurgents during the Commune, founding La Caricature politique, he later had to live in exile and died in London].