HUGO Victor. Lot n° 12

Autograph manuscript. 2/3 p. in-8. June 16, 1848. Stamp of the inventory of the Victor Hugo succession. Remarkable unpublished fragment of his diary, written at the time of the days of June 48. "1848. Today, June 16, it rained, I had taken shelter under a carriage entrance, Boulevard Poissonnière. An old woman, selling canes and umbrellas, was talking with a man, young and moustachioed, wearing a national guard kepi and a blouse. The old woman said: - It can't go on like this. I haven't made ten francs for a month, we're dying of hunger, but we can't subscribe to it, but if it lasts, we'll have to go and ask those who have some. - If it lasts, you'll have to go and ask those who have some. Four days later, in front of the Constituent Assembly, Hugo gave his famous speech "against the national workshops".