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#he killed a lot of people (even when he couldve saved lives with diplomacy)
secretmellowblog
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SO true
#les mis
#victor hugo
#learning about Hugo's war crimes really does completely shatter your perspective of him
#and reframes a lot of the book
#im making this as a joke meme but yeah it was Awful
#I'm not sure if Pilf or someones already made a post explaining it for tumblr?
#the basic context is that Hugo was on 'the wrong side' of the Barricades in 1848
#working with Napoleon III's regime to violently crush a (justified) working class rebellion against the regime's new draconian labor laws
#edit: I got it wrong it was in the interim regime between Philippe and Napoleon iii — not Napoleon iii’s official reign yet
#he killed a lot of people (even when he couldve saved lives with diplomacy)
#in large part because he was also suicidal at the time
#and yeah the more context ya get the worse it looks
#yeah his politics changed drastically later on but like. Yike
#like he later became very pro barricade and anti Napoleons but. yee
#maybe part of why his writing on Javert is good is because he has experience committing atrocities for an unjust authority
#:P
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