Victor Hugo Quotes
When freedom returns, so shall I.
Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French Writer, Member of the Constituent Assembly & the National Assembly at Bordeaux, Statement upon his going into exile when Louis Napoléon III, 1808-1873, crowned himself Napoléon III. Hugo returned 19 years later.
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This newspaper was an English language organ published by General Allenby’s British and Allied forces in the Middle East. Prior to the war, the Middle East was all part of the Ottoman Empire. However, the Ottoman Turks sided with Germany in WWI and their Middle East dominions were targets for the allied military strategy.
This Proclamation was issued upon arrival of the British occupying imperial army in present day Iraq. The English policy makers like the Bush administration almost a century later were expecting a more welcoming reaction. See {585250}.
Rafael Sebastian Guillen Vicente
Monroe visited his daughter who was attending school in Paris. She observed that the French roads were much finer than those in America:
Victor-Marie Hugo was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote abundantly in an exceptional variety of genres: lyrics, satires, epics, philosophical poems, epigrams, novels, history, critical essays, political speeches, funeral orations, diaries, letters public and private, as well as dramas in verse and prose.
