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Victor Hugo branded a miserly money-grubber "poseur"

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From: The Hindustan Times
Date: 20061003
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London, Oct 3 -- Victor Hugo, the iconic 19th century writer and one of France's most cherished literary heroes, may have been a miserly money-grubber "poseur", according to a verdict passed by investigators at the time.

The revelation, which strikes at the heart of Hugo's cult status in France, is contained in a book published by a civil servant who spent two years studying police files compiled between 1871 and 1940 on the country's greatest literati.

The work, La Police des Ecrivains, by Bruno Fuligni, offers ...

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