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| Country of Location: |
Country of Location
Switzerland
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| Location: |
Location Cologny |
| Library / Collection: |
Library / Collection
Fondation Martin Bodmer
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| Shelfmark: | Shelfmark H-71.2 |
| Manuscript Title: | Manuscript Title Victor Hugo, Oh ! N'insultez jamais une femme qui tombe, signed autograph |
| Caption: | Caption Paper · 1 f. · 28.6 x 26.4 cm · not dated |
| Language: |
Language
French |
| Manuscript Summary: | Manuscript Summary This famous poem, probably written on 6 September 1835, is part of the composite manuscript Les chants du crépuscule that was published in the same year. Hugo movingly denounces the condition of prostitutes: he actually invites the reader to sympathize with rather than despise the “fallen women”. This symbolic vocabulary, usually denoting moral depravity, is used here not to convey a fault, but to express the courage of women who long struggled against the inevitability of the burden of misery before succumbing to it. Far from a moralizing Manicheism, Hugo assigns faults generally attributed to these women also to “à toi, riche ! à ton or”, pointing a finger at the injustice of a social system lacking any distribution of wealth as well as “à nous”, each citizen whose regard is not charitable enough. This manuscript presents a slight variation of the printed text since it reads: “s’y retenir longtemps de leurs mains épuisées” instead of “s’y cramponner longtemps”. |
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | DOI (Digital Object Identifier 10.5076/e-codices-fmb-ms-Hugo-H-071-002 (http://dx.doi.org/10.5076/e-codices-fmb-ms-Hugo-H-071-002) |
| Permanent link: | Permanent link https://e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/fmb/ms-Hugo-H-071-002 |
| IIIF Manifest URL: |
IIIF Manifest URL
https://e-codices.unifr.ch/metadata/iiif/fmb-ms-Hugo-H-071-002/manifest.json
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| How to quote: | How to quote Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, H-71.2: Victor Hugo, Oh ! N'insultez jamais une femme qui tombe, signed autograph (https://e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/fmb/ms-Hugo-H-071-002). |
| Online Since: | Online Since 09/26/2017 |
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| Document Type: |
Document Type
Autograph |
| Century: |
Century
19th century |
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