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What Victor Hugo (Bi)Centennial?: An Interview with Jean Luc Jeener

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From: Western European Stages
Date: 20030101
Author:DeCock, Jean

Believe it or not, I must report with indignation that the anniversary of the patriarch of French Literature, born two centuries ago in 1802 (he died in 1885, a date which for Shattuck in his Banquet Years signals the beginning of the twentieth century) went by almost unnoticed by the cultural powers that be. It would seem the main function of the National stages subsidized by the Ministère de la Culture should be the preservation and promotion of the French cultural heritage. Not so. The Comédie-Française made little effort to remember the major author of the nineteenth century whose ...

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