By Victor Hugo
VICTOR HUGO'S lengthy and chequered lifestyles (1802-85) used to be jam-packed with stories of the main assorted personality - literature and politics, the court docket and the road, parliament and the theatre, labour, struggles, disappointments, exile and triumphs. --- In 1855 he all started a 15-year-long exile at the island of Guernsey, the place he accomplished, between others, his longest and most famed paintings, Les Misérables (1862), and likewise the fellow Who Laughs (L'Homme qui rit; 1869), often referred to as "By Order of the King", a historical novel with fictional characters, set in England 1688-1705. --- .it may be noticeable that, the following back, the tale is admirably tailored to the ethical. The optimistic ingenuity exhibited all through is nearly morbid. not anything may be extra fortunately imagined. than the adventures of Gwynplaine, the itinerant mountebank, snatched unexpectedly out of his little lifestyle, and put in with out education as one of many hereditary legislators of a superb nation. it really is with a really sour irony that the paper, on which all this relies, is left to drift for years on the will of wind and tide. What, back, may be finer in belief than that voice from the folk heard unexpectedly in the home of Lords, in solemn arraignment of the pleasures and privileges of its fabulous occupants? The terrible laughter, stamped for ever "by order of the king" upon the face of this unusual spokesman of democracy, provides another function of justice to the scene; in all time, travesty has been the argument of oppression; and, in all time, the oppressed may need made this resolution: "If i'm vile, is it now not your procedure that has made me so?" ---Robert Louis Stevenson
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