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Jusqu'a ce que mort s'ensuive
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Those before whom these two terrifying masterpieces of civil war stood, under the bright blue sky of June, will never forget them”: Victor Hugo, in a chapter of Les Misérables, thus evokes the two most formidable barricades of the Parisian insurrection of June 1848, of which he was a witness and even an actor. At the head of one was a “tragic urchin”, a mechanic worker, behind the other a truculent giant, a former naval officer. Emmanuel Barthélemy, the worker, and Frédéric Cournet, the sailor, are not fictional characters, they really existed. Although they fought on the same side in these bloody days, they would become mortal enemies. Hugo sums up their furiously romantic destiny in a few lines that made me want to reconstruct from beginning to end, from Paris to London, the intersecting story of these two forgotten figures of the nineteenth-century revolutions. We see barricades, the penal colony, escapes, a coup d'état, a duel to the death, several murders, the gallows, and stooges like Karl Marx and Napoleon III. And Hugo himself, no less. That's this book. O. R."--Publisher's website
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