Period photographs on albumen paper
Adèle Foucher – Auguste Vacquerie
Beautiful original prints from Victor Hugo’s inner circle
Portrait of Victor Hugo, period albumen print on thick cardboard
[Paris, 12th April 1885], cabinet format
Rare original print of the last portrait of Victor Hugo alive, five weeks before his death
Original photographe of Victor Hugo by Bertall
N.p.n.d [Brussels, 1867], carte-de-visite format
Elegant portrait of the poet during his exile
Photographic portrait of Victor Hugo
[Paris], c. 1880, cabinet format
Very fine portrait of the poet, in the twilight of his life
Autograph letter signed « Marceline Desbordes-Valmore » to Victor Hugo
N.p.n.d, [Paris, after 1840], 2 p. in-8° in black ink
« It is my fate to never dare to write except to your heart and to always knock there with a prayer »
Autograph letter signed « Emile Deschanel » to Victor Hugo
« À l’École normale » [Paris], 3 Xbre [December] 1839, 3 p. in-4°
« I can no longer bear the boredom, the disgust; I would need to hear you speak »
Autograph letter signed « Juliette » to Victor Hugo
N.p [Paris], 9th December [1846], « Wednesday morning, 10 h ½ », 4 p. in-4°
« You have omitted nothing, forgotten nothing, disdained nothing. And all this in your most beautiful style and sublime poetry »
Autograph letter to Victor Hugo
Paris, 20th April [18]77, 4 pp. in-24°
« My opinion is to delight you in everything and always and to adore you on both knees »
Autograph letter signed « Juliette » to Victor Hugo
N.p, 12 February [1849], 4 pp. in-8°
« I like the violent and expeditious genre »
Autograph letter signed « Juliette » to Victor Hugo
N.d.n.p [Paris, 13th January 1851], 4 p. in-8°
« Hello, my beloved, hello, my dear love… »
Original photographe in cabinet format
[Paris, 23rd May 1885], Cabinet format: 10 x 16,50 cm
Moving portrait of the great man on his deathbed by Nadar
Original photograph by Pierre Petit
Period albumen print (1861). Name card format
The very first photograph of Victor Hugo with a beard
Original photography of Victor Hugo by Alexandre Quinet
[Veules-les-Roses, c. 1882], 11,8 x 16,4 cm
Victor Hugo’s only period print at Veules-les-Roses, at his friend’s Paul Meurice
Autograph letter signed « Ste Beuve » to Adèle Foucher
Besançon, 14 October 1829, 3 p. in-4°
« In truth, madame, what a foolish idea I had to leave your hospitable home without purpose, the fruitful and encouraging words of Victor… »
Period albumen prints in stereoscopic view
[Jersey, c. 1853-1855], 7,5 x 6,5 cm
Hugo in stereo
Autograph letter signed « CB » to his mother, Madame Aupick
[Paris] 31st December 1863, 4 pp. in-8, additional post-scriptum attached
« The only feeling by which I still sense myself living is a vague desire for fame, revenge, and fortune »
[Second notice on] Pierre Dupont – Corrected proof
[Paris] 6th June 1861 [stamped], 11 p. in-8vo bradel
“The public was so tired of Victor Hugo’s tireless faculties, his indestructible beauties”
Autograph card signed « PB » to André Dubois
[Cologne, 10 Sept. 1952], 1 p. in-8° on a postcard’s verso
« What shall I tell you about the journeys in this divine valley that Victor Hugo has not already said? »
Autograph letter signed « Jean Cocteau » to Henry de Montherlant
Milly[-la-Forêt], 1 November 1962, 1 p. in-4°
« The only strange thing is that we are under this dome which refused Chateaubriand Hugo Vigny Balzac… »
Lettre autographe signée “George” à Victor Hugo
[Probablement vers 1840], Paris, 36 rue de la Victoire, 2 p. in-8
“You never forget those you honor with your benevolence”
Autograph letter signed « François Victor Hugo » to a friend
N.p.n.d [c. 1865-1866] « 21st April », 1 p. in-4° on mourning paper
« We have a small floor available in the cottage we live in »
A set of seventeen autograph letters signed, accompanied with an original drawing
Guernesey, Paris, Toulon and Lunel, between 1885 and 1917, 41 p. in various formats
« It was during one of those evenings, in the middle of a storm like this, that my grandfather had to write Gilliatt’s battles »
Autograph letter to Alphonsine Masson
[Marine Terrace, Jersey], 5th August [1855], 4 pp. small in-12°
« And every night I look up there, I make signs of intelligence to the heavenly eyes of the night, and it seems to me that I see her »
Autograph letter to Delphine de Girardin
Marine Terrace [Jersey] 2nd May [1854], 4 pages small in-8
“I will not put myself behind a mask the day I put myself behind a barricade”
Autograph poem signed « V.H. »
N.d.n.p, 1 page oblong in-4, brown ink
Bespoke framing
“The poet, inspired when the earth ignores…”
Autograph letter signed “Victor Hugo” to Eugène Pelletan
Hauteville House, 19th May [1867], 1 page 1/2 in-8
“Hernani is a mountaineer, and so am I. He’s hated literarily, and me politically”
Autograph manuscript (copeau)
N.p.n.d [Hauteville-House], 2 p. in-8°
« He comes, and we see the dawn through his pink fingers »
Autograph inscription signed « Victor Hugo »
N.p.n.d. [print : Spring 1880], 12,7 x 9 cm
« I think with happiness of all the charming things you have done for my dear grandchildren »
Autograph letter signed “Victor H” to Delphine de Girardin
S.l, Lundi [15th November 1847], 1 p. in-8
“We want to resurrect all Thursday at Cleopatra”
Autograph letter signed “VH” to Delphine de Girardin
N.p.n.d, this Friday, 1 page small in-8
“I admire you and love you”
Autograph letter signed “Victor H” to Delphine de Girardin
N.p.n.d, this Tuesday, 1 p. in-8 on bifolio
“The end of the week will not pass without me going to do penance and seek reparation at your feet”
Autograph manuscript
N.d.n.p [Senate, March 1879] 1 page oblong in-12
“Who gives to the poor lend to God”
Autograph letter signed “Victor Hugo” to Eugène Pelletan
Hauteville House, 2nd April [1861], 2 pages in-8 on double sheet
“Why did we want to be faithful to freedom, and to ourselves?”
Autograph aphorism signed « Victor Hugo »
N.p.n.d.., 1/2 p. in-8° oblong
« To dream is happiness; to wait is life »
Autograph letter signed “Victor Hugo” to Hyacinthe Vinson.
N.p, December 19th [1848], 1 page in-8.
“I am nothing and want to be nothing“
Autograph letter signed « Victor Hugo » to a critic
28 January [1870], H[auteville] H[ouse], [Guernesey], 1 p. in-4°
« Hatred and sympathy—that is my life »
Autograph draft of a poem fragment
N.p.n.d, [Guernesey, c. 1854], 1 p. in-12° on thin blue paper
« Ils ouvrent cette nuit que nul rayon ne perce / Ils y font brusquement tomber à la renverse / Les pâles cadavres béants ! »
Autograph « VH » à Léon Gatayes
[Paris], 29th May 1843 (postal mark), 1 p. in-8°
« The day we play Les Burgraves »
Autograph letter signed « V.H. » to pastor Nathanaël Martin-Dupont
Hauteville House, 3 7bre [September 1868], 1 p. in-12° on mourning paper
« The great soul in this great clarity sees that I am crying, and knows that I’m hoping »
Autograph letter signed “Victor H” [to Joséphine Trébuchet]
Brussels, 19th December [1851], 1 page in-8°
“I fought for the right, for the truth, for the righteous, for the people, for France”
Autograph notes
[Paris, 1883], on the back of an envelope addressed to him
Moving intimate document of the great man in the last years of his life
“Mini” autograph letter signed « V. » to Émile Allix
H[auteville] H[house], 25th July [1862], 2 p. small in-24° on blue paper
« I’m going to see my Charles in a few days. It will be a deep joy, and I deserve it a little after this heavy work »
Autograph fragments for a satirical poem
S.l.n.d [Guernesey, 1870], two teared strips in-4°
« Brunet was once a clown. He was radiant / Above humans by dint of stupidity »
Autograph letter signed « Victor Hugo » to Jules Janin
S.l., 10 November 1871, 1 p. in-8
“There is something of Horace in you and something from Diderot; we listen to you like the first and we love you like the second“
Original photograph by Melandri
Period albumin print (c. 1881). Cabinet card format
Nice portrait of the poet surrounded by his grandchildren
Draft of an autograph poem
N.p.n.d [Guernesey, 1859], 1 p. in-8° (140 x 145 cm)
« Never mind O traitor! at point-blank range my book shoots you! »
Chalot & Cie. Photographic portrait of Victor Hugo
Circa. 1880, postcard format (16,4 x 10,8cm)
Autograph manuscript
N.p.n.d [1841], 1 p. in-8°
« Love is wont not to lodge in the hand of stinginess »
Autograph letter signed « Victor H.» to an unknown recipient
[Paris] 9th October [1874], 1 page in-8
“Quels que soient les charmes de Thryos”
Autograph letter signed « Victor Hugo » [to Edgar Quinet ?]
H.H., 7th July, 1 p. in-8° on blue laid paper
« I see it in England, alas, narrow and intolerant, and profoundly hostile to progress »
Autograph letter signed “Lamartine” to a friend
N.p [4th April 1853], 3 pages in-8 on double sheet, original envelope
“I don’t know anything about Hugo other than that he’s in Jersey with his family at his studies”
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