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Madame de Stael et Victor Hugo face a la realite et la legende napoleoniennes.
From: Nineteenth-Century French Studies
Date: 20070922
Author:Ousselin, Edward
A la fois temoins privilegies et participants actifs aux bouleversements sociopolitiques de leur epoque respective, Germaine de Stael (1766-1817) et Victor Hugo (1802-85) devinrent, chacun a sa maniere, des ecrivains "engages" avant la lettre. Tous deux connurent l'experience de l'exil force, du regard retrospectif sur la patrie qui leur restait interdite. Chacun dut son exil a son refus de se conformer a un diktat imperial. Adversaire tres tot declaree du regime napoleonien, l'auteure de Considerations sur la Revolution francaise et Dix Annees d'exil decrivit "la longue lutte [que ...
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