La Légende des Siècles

by Victor Hugo

BIBLIOGRAPHY

I.

WORKS OF VICTOR HUGO.

Odes et Poésies diverses. Paris, 1822. The volume contains several poems not found in subsequent editions.
Han d'lslande, novel. Paris, 1823.
La Muse française, begun in 1823, ended in July, 1824. It contains several articles by Hugo.
Odes et Ballades, 2nd volume. Paris, 1824.
Relation d'un voyage au Mont Blanc. Paris, 1825. The MS. was sold to a publisher, but never published.
Bug-Jargal, novel. Paris, 1826.
Odes, 3rd volume. Paris, 1826.
Cromwell, drama. Paris, 1827.
Les Orientales. Paris, 1828 (December).
Le Dernier Jour d'un condamné. Paris, 1829 (January).
Marion Delormé. Paris, 1829. Not acted until 1830.
Hernani, ou l'honneur castillan, drama. Paris, 1829. Acted for the first time on February 26, 1830.
Notre-Dame de Paris. Paris, 1831 (March 15).
Les Feuilles d'automne. Paris, 1831.
Le Roi s'amuse, drama. Paris, 1832.
Lucrèce Borgia, drama. Paris, 1833.
Marie Tudor, drama. Paris, 1833.
Les Chants du crépuscule. Paris, 1835.
Angelo, drama. Paris, 1835.
Les Voix intérieures. Paris, 1837.
Ruy Blas, drama. Paris, 1838.
Les Rayons et les Ombres. Paris, 1840.
Le Rhin. Paris, 1842. It is divided into three parts: Les Lettres, La Légende du beau Pécopin et de la belle Bauldour, Conclusion politique.
Les Burgraves, trilogy. Paris, 1843.
Napoléon le Petit. Brussels, 1852.
Les Chátiments. Geneva, 1853.
Les Contemplations. Paris, 1856.
La Légende des siécles. First Series. Paris, 1859.
Les Misérables. Paris, 1862.
William Shakespeare. Paris, 1864.
Les Chansons des rues et des bois. Paris, 1865.
Les Travailleurs de la mer. Paris, 1866.
L'Homme qui rit, novel. Paris, 1869.
L'Année terrible. Paris, 1872.
Quatre-vingt-treize, novel. Paris, 1873.
La Légende des siécles. Second Series. Paris, 1877.
L'Art d'être grand-père. Paris, 1877.
L'Histoire d'un crime. Paris, 1877. It was written at Brussels soon after the coup d'état of 1851, but not published until 1877, when the Republic was in danger.
Le Pape. Paris, 1878.
La Pitié suprême. Paris, 1879.
L'Ane. Paris, 1880.
Religions et Religion, poems. Paris, 1880.
Les Quatre Vents de l'Esprit. Paris, 1881.
Torquemada. Paris, 1882.
La Légende des siècles. Third Series. Paris, 1883.

II

POSTHUMOUS WORKS.

Le Théâtre en liberté. Paris, 1886.
La Fin de Satan, poem. Paris, 1886.
Choses vues, a sort of diary. Paris, 1887.
Toute la Lyre. Paris, 1888.
Extraits de la correspondance de Victor Hugo. Paris, 1888.

III

Besides these works Hugo wrote many articles, some of which appeared subsequently in complete editions of his works. The most remarkable of these are Journal des idées, des opinions et des lectures dun jeune Jacobite. 1819.

Les Destins de la Vendée. 1819.
Sur Walter Scott. 1823.
Sur Lord Byron (à propos de sa mort). 1824.
Guerre aux démolisseurs. 1825-32.
Journal des idées et des opinions d'un révolutionnaire de 1830.
Sur Mirabeau. 1834.
La Libération du territoire. 1873.
Many political articles, speeches, and prefaces.

IV

STUDY AND CRITICISM.

The studies and criticisms on Hugo form a large and ever-increasing library. The most remarkable among them are the following:

SAINTE-BEUVE. Critiques et Portraits littéraires. Articles on Victor Hugo. 1832.
GUSTAVE PLANCHE. Nouveaux portraits littéraires. Studies and criticisms on some of Hugo's plays. 1832-8.
Revue des Deux Mondes, passim. Articles by Gustave Planche, A. Fontaney, and Charles Magnin.
CHARLES ASSELINEAU. Mélanges d'une bibliothèque romantique. 1867.
LEONARD DE LOMÉNIE. Galerie des contemporains illustres. Vol. I. 1879.
GUSTAVE DESSOFFY (le comte). Discours sur la vie littéraire de Victor Hugo. 1845.
ELISA CHEVALIER. La Vérité sur Victor Hugo. 1850.
EUGÈNE DE MIRECOURT. Victor Hugo. 1854.
HIPPOLYTE CASTILLE. Victor Hugo.
A. MAZURE. Les Poètes contemporains.
ERNEST HAMEL. Victor Hugo. 1860.
ALFRED NETTEMENT. Victor Hugo. 1862.
MADAME VICTOR HUGO. Victor Hugo, raconté par un témoin de sa vie. 2 vols. 1863.
PAUL DE SAINT-VICTOR. Victor Hugo. 1885.
E. DUPUIS. Victor Hugo, l'homme et le poète. 1897.
PETIT DE JULLEVILLE. Histoire de la littérature française. 1894-1900.
CH. RENOUVIER. Victor Hugo, le Poète et le philosophe. 2 vols. 1900.
A. SLEUMER. Die Dramen von Hugo. Berlin, 1901.
GASTON DESCHAMPS. Conférences sur Victor Hugo. 1898.
ÉMILE FAGUET. Histoire de la littérature française. 1900.

And a host of articles by such critics as Émile Montégut, Émile Augier, Edmond Scherer, without speaking of the innumerable notes and criticisms which have appeared on Hugo and his work in daily papers and periodicals both in France and in foreign countries.

V.

PORTRAITS.

These are extremely numerous, but previously to 1851, that is, before Hugo left France, they all represent him as a clean-shaven man. After his exile Hugo grew a beard, hence the alteration so noticeable in the portraits subsequent to 1851.

The portrait chosen (top of the document) represents Hugo in his youth, at the time of the first appearance of Notre-Dame de Paris.