Artist: Victor Hugo
Lyrics of Artist: Victor Hugo
Lyrics of Artist: Victor Hugo
[Lyric] Vol. III Book VIII Chap. XI: Offers of Service from Misery to Wretchedness (Victor Hugo)
(VOLUME III: MARIUS; BOOK VIII: THE WICKED POOR MAN) Marius ascended the stairs of the hovel with slow steps; at the moment when he was about to re-enter his cell, he caught sight of the elder Jondrette girl following him through the corridor. The very sight of this girl was odious to him; it was she who had his five francs, it was too late to...Learn MoremiscVictor Hugo[Lyric] Vol. IV Book I Chap. I: Well Cut (Victor Hugo)
(VOLUME IV: SAINT-DENIS; BOOK I: A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY) 1831 and 1832, the two years which are immediately connected with the Revolution of July, form one of the most peculiar and striking moments of history. These two years rise like two mountains midway between those which precede and those which follow them. They have a revolutionary...Learn MoremiscVictor Hugo[Lyric] Vol. III Book VII Chap. I: Mines and Miners (Victor Hugo)
(VOLUME III: MARIUS; BOOK VII: PATRON MINETTE) Human societies all have what is called in theatrical parlance, a third lower floor. The social soil is everywhere undermined, sometimes for good, sometimes for evil. These works are superposed one upon the other. There are superior mines and inferior mines. There is a top and a bottom in this...Learn MoremiscVictor Hugo[Lyric] Vol. III Book III Chap. V: The Utility of Going to Mass In Order to Become a Revolutionist (Victor Hugo)
(VOLUME III: MARIUS; BOOK III: THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON) Marius had preserved the religious habits of his childhood. One Sunday, when he went to hear mass at Saint-Sulpice, at that same chapel of the Virgin whither his aunt had led him when a small lad, he placed himself behind a pillar, being more absent-minded and thoughtful than usual...Learn MoremiscVictor Hugo[Lyric] Vol. III Book VIII Chap. XVII: The Use Made of Marius Five-Franc Piece (Victor Hugo)
(VOLUME III: MARIUS; BOOK VIII: THE WICKED POOR MAN) Marius decided that the moment had now arrived when he must resume his post at his observatory. In a twinkling, and with the agility of his age, he had reached the hole in the partition. He looked. The interior of the Jondrette apartment presented a curious aspect, and Marius found an...Learn MoremiscVictor Hugo[Lyric] Vol. III Book III Chap. VIII: Marble Against Granite (Victor Hugo)
(VOLUME III: MARIUS; BOOK III: THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON) It was hither that Marius had come on the first occasion of his absenting himself from Paris. It was hither that he had come every time that M. Gillenormand had said: "He is sleeping out." Lieutenant Theodule was absolutely put out of countenance by this unexpected encounter with a...Learn MoremiscVictor Hugo[Lyric] Vol. IV Book I Chap. V: Facts Whence History Springs and Which History Ignores (Victor Hugo)
(VOLUME IV: SAINT-DENIS; BOOK I: A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY) Towards the end of April, everything had become aggravated. The fermentation entered the boiling state. Ever since 1830, petty partial revolts had been going on here and there, which were quickly suppressed, but ever bursting forth afresh, the sign of a vast underlying conflagration....Learn MoremiscVictor Hugo[Lyric] Vol. III Book IV Chap. I: A Group which Barely Missed Becoming Historic (Victor Hugo)
(VOLUME III: MARIUS; BOOK IV: THE FRIENDS OF THE ABC) At that epoch, which was, to all appearances indifferent, a certain revolutionary quiver was vaguely current. Breaths which had started forth from the depths of '89 and '93 were in the air. Youth was on the point, may the reader pardon us the word, of moulting. People were undergoing a...Learn MoremiscVictor Hugo[Lyric] Vol. III Book III Chap. VI: The Consequences of Having Met a Warden (Victor Hugo)
(VOLUME III: MARIUS; BOOK III: THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON) Where it was that Marius went will be disclosed a little further on. Marius was absent for three days, then he returned to Paris, went straight to the library of the law-school and asked for the files of the Moniteur. He read the Moniteur, he read all the histories of the Republic...Learn MoremiscVictor Hugo[Lyric] Vol. III Book VIII Chap. XIX: Occupying Ones Self with Obscure Depths (Victor Hugo)
(VOLUME III: MARIUS; BOOK VIII: THE WICKED POOR MAN) Hardly was M. Leblanc seated, when he turned his eyes towards the pallets, which were empty. "How is the poor little wounded girl?" he inquired. "Bad," replied Jondrette with a heart-broken and grateful smile, "very bad, my worthy sir. Her elder sister has taken her to the Bourbe to have her...Learn MoremiscVictor Hugo[Lyric] Vol. III Book VIII Chap. XII: The Use Made of M. LeBlancs Five-Franc Piece (Victor Hugo)
(VOLUME III: MARIUS; BOOK VIII: THE WICKED POOR MAN) Nothing in the aspect of the family was altered, except that the wife and daughters had levied on the package and put on woollen stockings and jackets. Two new blankets were thrown across the two beds. Jondrette had evidently just returned. He still had the breathlessness of out of doors. His...Learn MoremiscVictor Hugo[Lyric] Vol. III Book V Chap. I: Marius Indigent (Victor Hugo)
(VOLUME III: MARIUS; BOOK V: THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE) Life became hard for Marius. It was nothing to eat his clothes and his watch. He ate of that terrible, inexpressible thing that is called de la vache enrage; that is to say, he endured great hardships and privations. A terrible thing it is, containing days without bread, nights without...Learn MoremiscVictor Hugo
