Victor HUGO - Poem
Victor HUGO (1802 - 1885), French writer Autograph poem. Slnd; 1 pages in-4 °. Central fold Two short poems written on the same sheet. Quatrain writes as part of a public subscription in favor of Brigadier Dominique Millot, of the 8th cuirassier regiment, who has become blind: “Blind like Homer and like Belisarius, Having only one child for guide and support The hand that will give bread to its misery, He will not see it, but God sees it for him ” Victor Hugo refers here to Generalissimo Bélisaire, the last great defender of the Roman Empire in the 6th century, winner of the Vandals and Ostrogoths, under the reign of Justinian. Its end is equivocal, represented as a consul and a triumphant general, Duke of Mesopotamia, supreme leader of the imperial troops of the East. When others give it a sad end, like the philosopher Jean-François Marmontel imagining him blind, guided by a teenager, begging in the streets of Constantinople, and Jacques-Louis David painting him asking for alms . Below follows a pretty couplet which the poet introduces with this sentence: "written on the fireplace in Mme de La Vallière’s room at St Germain": "Here you loved each other, you sweet, him victorious, He king by his ancestors, you queen by heart ”
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